smbumount does not seem to be unmounting

Hi,

I have bash script segment as follows..

if [ -z "`grep bhas/Gateway /etc/mtab`" ]; then
echo =============
echo 'Bhas is not mounted'
echo =============
else
echo =============
echo 'Bhas is mounted'
echo =============
sudo -u bhas smbumount ~bhas/Gateway
fi

When I execute this (as root) I expect the samba mount to be removed.
Instead I find that the link still remains but just gets removed from
/etc/mtab. I can go to ~bhas/Gateway and access the files in the Windoze
file system that is mounted there.

BTW, the samba file system was mounted originally as

smbmount //Gateway2000/K ~bhas/Gateway

Thanks for any help

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.]
On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 09:04:31 -0500, R Kannan staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
> smbmount //Gateway2000/K ~bhas/Gateway

Which user was this done as? Does that user own the mount point? How
did you manage to get this to work, anyway? You usually have to specify
user= and workgroup= to mount an SMB share.

> if [ -z "`grep bhas/Gateway /etc/mtab`" ]; then
> echo 'Bhas is not mounted'
> else
> echo 'Bhas is mounted'
> sudo -u bhas smbumount ~bhas/Gateway
> fi
> When I execute this (as root) I expect the samba mount to be removed.
> Instead I find that the link still remains but just gets removed from
> /etc/mtab. I can go to ~bhas/Gateway and access the files in the
> Windoze file system that is mounted there.

Weird. Check sudo's return value and the system log files; make sure
that the smbumount command succeeded. Think about using mount and
umount instead of smbmount directly; it's less to type and all you have
to do is put a line in fstab like so:

//gateway2000/k /mnt/somewhere smbfs noauto,users,user=USER,
workgroup=DOMAIN,password=SECRET 0 0

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On 6 Mar 2005 15:05:56 GMT, Dances With Crows
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.]
>On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 09:04:31 -0500, R Kannan staggered into the Black
>Sun and said:
>> smbmount //Gateway2000/K ~bhas/Gateway
>
>Weird. Check sudo's return value and the system log files; make sure
>that the smbumount command succeeded. Think about using mount and
>umount instead of smbmount directly; it's less to type and all you have
>to do is put a line in fstab like so:
>
>//gateway2000/k /mnt/somewhere smbfs noauto,users,user=USER,
>workgroup=DOMAIN,password=SECRET 0 0

I have to kill the mount.smbfs process immediately before the umount
in order to Make It Happen:
PS=`pidof mount.smbfs` ; kill $PS
umount /mountpoint
--
buck

I do not have such a process ruinning on my machine

ps -elf |grep smbfs

produces no such process. However, my smbfsmounts are still available. BTW,
I am using SuSE9.0 running kernel 2.4.21

buck wrote:

>
>
> Re: smbumount does not seem to be unmounting
> From:
> buck <(E-Mail Removed)>
> Date:
> Monday 07 March 2005 12:55:54
> Groups:
> comp.os.linux.networking
> References: 1 2
>
> On 6 Mar 2005 15:05:56 GMT, Dances With Crows
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.]
>>On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 09:04:31 -0500, R Kannan staggered into the Black
>>Sun and said:
>>> smbmount //Gateway2000/K ~bhas/Gateway
>>
>>Weird.**Check*sudo's*return*value*and*the*system*log*files;*make*sure
>>that the smbumount command succeeded.**Think*about*using*mount*and
>>umount instead of smbmount directly; it's less to type and all you have
>>to do is put a line in fstab like so:
>>
>>//gateway2000/k**/mnt/somewhere**smbfs**noauto,users,user=USER,
>>workgroup=DOMAIN,password=SECRET**0**0
>
> I have to kill the mount.smbfs process immediately before the umount
> in order to Make It Happen:
> PS=`pidof mount.smbfs` ; kill $PS
> umount /mountpoint
> --
> buck