Re: samba Q

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>]

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.
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