MP 0.51 freezes in Mint w CIFS mount if net is disconnected

[grafical]

I've got shared drives on a Windows 7 machine. I've mounted them in Linux Mint 14/cinnamon /etc/fstab with CIFS under /home/username/shares/

This is the line in /etc/fstab:
//192.168.0.50/Storage /home/username/shares/Storage cifs rw,user,uid=username,gid=username,credentials=/home/username/.cifscred,_netdev 0 0

This mounts the drives on startup with no problem. The drives automatically appear on my desktop. In MP v0.51 the mount shows up as 'Storage' in the directory tree, just like I'd expect it to. MP can open it across the network, build thumbnail databases, manipulate images, etc etc. No problem so far.

However, I routinely disable wifi on the laptop to save battery. With wifi disabled, the CIFS mount stays mounted. For most things, that's not a problem but in MP, the mount still shows up in the directory tree and causes MP to completely freeze, even if I don't touch the mount. As long as the mount is in the directory tree while wifi is disabled, MP completely freezes.

Another example: With MP closed, I turn off wifi (again, the mount stays mounted). I then try to open MP. It will not open. It completely freezes before displaying any of its UI, and must be killed.

I've tried changing the mount point to /mnt/Storage/ (which doesn't create the folder on the desktop) but it still shows up in MP and immediately freezes. As soon as I turn wifi back on, MP returns to normal.

Is there any kind of workaround for this, aside from unmounting shares every time prior to opening MP and then remounting them? Is there some "conditional" way of mounting CIFS shares (i.e. if network is enabled, mount CIFS. If network disabled, unmount)?

[borfthedog]

Hi grafical,

I have also shared drives and, when mounting as you mention, I am able to navigate the drive and see folders and files, but it seem they are not recognized properly: I can't see/generate thumbnails, edit metadata, etc. Double-click on a jpeg file will open external editor.

Any idea of what can be happening? permissions when mounting using cifs? I am using Ubuntu 12.10.

Thans...

[oops66]

...Is there any kind of workaround for this, aside from unmounting shares every time prior to opening MP and then remounting them? Is there some "conditional" way of mounting CIFS shares (i.e. if network is enabled, mount CIFS. If network disabled, unmount)?

Hello,
I have tried by hand (with & without wifi) with:

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sudo mount.cifs "//192.168.1.254/disque dur/images" /home/user/custom -o guest

...And browse with the XnviewMP-linux version the shared directory and it seems to work properly...

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sudo umount custom

An other way to try:
http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.p ... 97#p110097
XnViewMP 0.51 Linux X64 - Ubuntu 12.04 X64