buteman wrote: ⤴Wed Mar 03, 2021 5:33 pm
Any thoughts that might help me please.
The problem isn't Linux Mint per se. It's the network management software down in the innards of the OS.
You have a similar situation on desktop machines, which usually never suspend or hibernate. What happens is that the mount point is left active when the connection goes dead, and that slows the machine to a crawl because the OS thinks the network is still there due to the network manager being stupid in not informing the OS to unmount the dead share. To make matters worse, the network manager's lack of smarts will always cause the OS to lock up applications that have files open on the network, especially the file manager.
There are only two solutions to this, 1) Don't do it, i.e. don't close the lid on your laptops, and 2) Work around it.
I don't do it. You may want to work around it, and to do that you are going to have to write some scripts and set up some systemd units to unmount the network shares before you allow the lid close event to put the machine to sleep, and to remount them after it is woken. That can be done, but it is an arduous process and not recommended because you still must remember to close down any application that has a file open on the network. Soooo... that leaves you with option 1) Don't do it.