re-post: problems umounting samba shares

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Apr 4 09:27:35 UTC 2005


Trevor "TeC" Christian wrote:
>>> 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?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Unmount it as root this time. Then, after mounting it as a regular user,
>> try unmounting it as the same user.
>>
>> Paul.
>>  
>>
> 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?

Do:
# chmod u+s /usr/bin/smbumount
and use "smbumount" to unmount your shares.

Paul.




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