re-post: problems umounting samba shares

Trevor "TeC" Christian trevor at bouyon.dalive.com
Sun Apr 3 11:18:00 UTC 2005


Paul Howarth wrote:

>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.
>  
>
That just may be it.  The error message changed.

umount: only root can unmount //192.168.100.1/public from /mnt/smb/public

Question though, I can mount the share as a user.  How can i umount it?

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