re-post: problems umounting samba shares

[Trevor "TeC" Christian]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 07:18 -0400, Trevor "TeC" Christian wrote:
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>>Paul Howarth wrote:
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>>>On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 07:00 -0400, Trevor "TeC" Christian wrote:
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>>>>Craig White wrote:
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>>>>>On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 20:53 -0400, Trevor "TeC" Christian wrote:
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>>>>>>I have an  FC1 box and have had so far little problem in mounting my 
>>>>>>samba file systems
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>>>>>>Eg:
>>>>>>\\192.168.100.1\music   /mnt/smb/music  smbfs   
>>>>>>_netdev,auto,user,ro,username=,password=        0 0
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>>>>>>mount /mnt/smb/music will mount the partition with no questions asked.
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>>>>>>Umounting is a lil bit of a problem though, I get the following error
>>>>>>  umount: /mnt/smb/music mount disagrees with the fstab
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>>>>>>Any ideas, explanations or suggestions?
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>>>>>cat /etc/fstab
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>>>>>what does it say?
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>>>>>Craig
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>>>>The example was from my /etc/fstab, but here is its entire contents.
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>>>>The samba lines are kinda long and may endup jumbled.
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>>>>$ 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
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>>>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.
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>>>Paul.
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>>That just may be it.  The error message changed.
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>>umount: only root can unmount //192.168.100.1/public from /mnt/smb/public
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>>Question though, I can mount the share as a user.  How can i umount it?
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>Unmount it as root this time. Then, after mounting it as a regular user,
>try unmounting it as the same user.
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>Paul.
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Same thing. 

For a user to be able to mount smbfs...i had to chmod u+s `which  smbmnt`. 

Would i need to do something similar to allow non-root users to umount?

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