re-post: problems umounting samba shares

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sun Apr 3 11:07:08 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 07:00 -0400, Trevor "TeC" Christian wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 20:53 -0400, Trevor "TeC" Christian wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I have an  FC1 box and have had so far little problem in mounting my 
> >>samba file systems
> >>
> >>Eg:
> >>\\192.168.100.1\music   /mnt/smb/music  smbfs   
> >>_netdev,auto,user,ro,username=,password=        0 0
> >>
> >>mount /mnt/smb/music will mount the partition with no questions asked.
> >>
> >>Umounting is a lil bit of a problem though, I get the following error
> >>    umount: /mnt/smb/music mount disagrees with the fstab
> >>
> >>Any ideas, explanations or suggestions?
> >>    
> >>
> >---
> >cat /etc/fstab
> >
> >what does it say?
> >
> >Craig
> >  
> >
> The example was from my /etc/fstab, but here is its entire contents.
> 
> The samba lines are kinda long and may endup jumbled.
> 
> $ cat /etc/fstab
> LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> /dev/hda2               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 
> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    
> noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> #Manual samba entries
> \\192.168.100.1\trevor  /mnt/smb/home           smbfs   
> _netdev,noauto,user,rw,credentials=/home/trevor/.credentials    0 0
> \\192.168.100.1\calendar        /mnt/smb/calendar       smbfs   
> _netdev,auto,user,rw,credentials=/home/trevor/.credentials       0 0
> \\192.168.100.1\mozilla-mail_settings   /mnt/smb/mozilla-settings       
> smbfs   _netdev,auto,user,rw,credentials=/home/trevor/.credentials       0 0
> \\192.168.100.1\public  /mnt/smb/public smbfs   
> _netdev,auto,user,rw,credentials=/home/trevor/.credentials      0 0
> \\192.168.100.1\music   /mnt/smb/music  smbfs   
> _netdev,auto,user,ro,username=,password=        0 0

This might be a red herring, but could you try changing the backslashes
to slashes and see if it works any better? I know Windows only works
with backslashes in this context, but samba works both ways and a
regular slash doesn't have any special meaning that might get
misinterpreted.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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