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phabulosa

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From: Mountain View, CA

Registered: 2007-10-17

Posts: 182

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user unable to umount samba share

Here is the lines in my /etc/fstab related to samba shares.

# Some Windows/SAMBA shares
//BAO-QNAP500GB/USB\040Disk\0401    /mnt/eBooks smbfs workgroup=BAO-HOME,username=xxxxxx,ip=192.168.2.4,password=xxxxxx,noauto,noatime,user,rw    0      0

I am able to mount samba share as a user (not root) after

chmod u+s /usr/bin/smbmnt
chmod u+s /usr/bin/smbumount

by

mount /mnt/eBooks

However, I am unable to umount as a user:

[ning@HP-m8100y ~]$ umount /mnt/eBooks
umount: /mnt/eBooks mount disagrees with the fstab

On the other hand, this could work:

smbumount /mnt/eBooks

Can somone tell me what I did wrong?

dabski

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Registered: 2008-02-07

Posts: 101

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Re: user unable to umount samba share

Looks like its something to do with fstab though I don't know what never having mounted shares though fstab myself. I would try removing the fstab entry and just using smbmount to mount shares, thats the way I've always done it and never have problems with mounting/unmounting.

smbmount //IP Address/source folder /destination folder