on Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:18:32PM +0100, Joerg Johannes (liste_joerg@gmx.de) wrote: > Hi everybody > > At our university, I can mount a smb directory at our computing centre > by giving my username and password. I have in my /etc/fstab: > > //myusername.files.uni-freiburg.de/windows /home/jorg/files > smb username=myusername,user,noauto,rw 0 0 > > When I type "mount files/" in my home directory, I am asked to give my > password, and then I can read/write to the network dir without problems. > The problem comes when I want to umount the directory: > > umount files/ > umount: only root can unmount //myusername.files.uni-freiburg.de/windows > from /home/jorg/files > > Can anybody tell my why, and how to fix it? I'd like to umount this dir > as normal user. Consider using autofs to automatically mount and umount the shares on demand. Set a short timeout -- a few seconds (2-3) isn't too short -- to allow you to quickly free resources and keep you from waiting for mount time-outs. One limitation of legacy MS Windows is to allow only a limited number of clients access to a fileserver (IIRC, 10). Each GNU/Linux mount counts as a user instance. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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