Re: famd won't let go of my samba shares! (myref: rl3a26may)

[rich lott <rl3@shinyblue.net>]

Hi

thanks for your reply.

I've changed fstab, and did modprobe cifs and now get

$ mount -t cifs //st/rich /mnt/st_rich/
mount error: could not find target server. TCP name st/rich not found  rc = 
-1073743656
No ip address specified and hostname not found

I tried
$ mount.cifs //192.168.254.202/rich /mnt/st_rich/
retrying with upper case share name
mount error 6 = No such device or address
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

using smbmount I can mount the share ok.

??
rich

On Thursday 26 May 2005 13:36, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (26/05/05 12:52), rich lott wrote:
> > re: Sarge / Kde / konqueror / smbmounts
> >
> > Often when I mount a remote samba share and browse the share with
> > konqueror, I can't unmount it after. mount complains that "device is
> > busy".
> >
> > This happens when the mount point is not showing in konqueror, and no
> > files are opened on the share by any other application.
> >
> > In fact, the only way I've found to unmount the files is to
> >
> > $ su root
> > $ umount -l /mount/point
> >
> > When I used
> > $ lsof | grep /mount/point
> >
> > I found that famd has the mount point open/engaged. Kill famd and I can
> > unmount the share. But then famd is kinda useful.
> >
> > Anyone else had this problem?
>
> Hi Rich
>
> Yes, I've tried various ways of using samba on the client side: smb4k,
> xffm etc. and experienced a variety of problems  I've found the best way
> to ensure 'safe' reading and writing of files to samba shares is to
> ensure that the cifs module is loaded - I use modconf, and setup the
> mounts within /etc/fstab:
>
> # smbclient configuration
> //server/share /smb/share     cifs
> credentials=/home/user/.smb_pass,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770  0 0
>
> you'll need to create the .smb_pass file as follows:
> username=<username>
> password=<password>
>
> and $ chmod 600 .smb_pass
>
> On the client you need smbclient and smbfs installed.  Instead of
> creating the directory /smb as I did, you could use /mnt which I believe
> is the prescribed approach in FHS (File Hierarchy System)
>
> Regards
>
> Clive