On Saturday 04 March 2006 14:49, Dave Ewart wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings all; >> >> Can someone explain to me why I can 'mount -t smbfs' a share on a >> debian based box, also 2 other shares on a RH7.3 box, and I can >> 'umount /mnt/sharename' on two shares located on the RH7.3 box, but >> to umount the debian based box I have to use the >> 'smbumount /mnt/sharename' against the debian based box? >> >> Otherwise its busy sometimes, or just silently fails to unmount >> other times. In either event the only path opened to that >> debian-based box might be an ssh -X session, which should not effect >> a samba share. >> >> Seems to me there ought to be a good, explainable reason for the >> difference in behaviour. > >Is it a permissions thing? Are the shares mounted as root or as a >normal user? Do you have /etc/fstab entries for these shares? > >Dave.
Interesting Dave, the directly to me copy arrived 6 minutes faster than the mailing list copy. Root owns everything in this case, and there are no fstab entries anyplace. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
