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[Yvan Masson <yvan.masson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is interesting to know that gvfs does not do this SMB Echo Request...
That is a pity, because gvfs is as simple as the "net use" command on Windows, and uses the Kerberos ticket, so it is a very interesting tool for companies trying to migrate to Ubuntu for desktops.

Currently, as a workaround, I did a small bash script that does exactly
this (with the ls command) and which I run after user login :

#!/bin/bash
cd /run/user/$UID/gvfs/
while true
do
	for i in ./smb* ; do
		if [ -d "$i" ]; then
			ls $(basename "$i")/ &> /dev/null
		fi
	done
	sleep 120
done

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1401917

Title:
  GVFS Samba mounts time out after inactivity

Status in gvfs package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In Ubuntu 14.04, gvfs version 1.20.1.-1ubuntu1, Samba mounts time out
  after a period of inactivity. I did some network traffic logging
  between gvfs and cifs as any samba mounts via cifs never time out.

  I discovered that CIFS periodicly sends an SMB Echo Request packet to
  keep the socket connection open while GVFS fails to do this. As a
  result a file server may kill the inactive connection however the
  mount inside of the file browser stays around. As a result, attempts
  to access the disconnected share results in waiting for an error box
  to pop up just so it can be unmounted and remounted.

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