This utility only unmounts cifs filesystems.

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Mon Aug 24 18:45:00 UTC 2009


Philippe Faure wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have just installed version 9.04.  I try mounting remote windows
> folders:
>  smbmount //phil2/edrive /temp -o credentials=$credentials ro
> 
> This works,
> 
> Now when I try to un-mount
> umount -fl /temp
> 
> I get error message:
> umount /temp
> This utility only unmounts cifs filesystems.
> This utility only unmounts cifs filesystems.
> 
> This is all done as root.  The properly un-mount the share is to reboot
> the system.
> 
> Have others seen this issue?  Is there a solution?

Nope.  I have cifs fs's mounted from /etc/fstab and they dismount fine.
-- 
derek






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