[TriLUG] i need a fix cuz i'm going down with mount

Jeffery Painter painter at kiasoft.com
Wed Jun 4 10:08:01 EDT 2003


I've seen this happen before, and all is not lost (crosses fingers)

You want umount not unmount ... after unmounting, you should see your 
files pop back into life. if it says busy, mount point in use, make sure 
you don't have any terms open sitting in that directory

Jeff Painter

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Roy Vestal wrote:

> smbmount works better from the command line.
> 
> smbmount //server/share /mountpoint -username=username (if the username is
> diff than the one you are logged in with
> 
> smbumount /mountpoint
> 
> Works much easier.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Ray" <jim at neuse.net>
> To: "Trilug Discussion (E-mail)" <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 9:47 AM
> Subject: [TriLUG] i need a fix cuz i'm going down with mount
> 
> 
> hep me hep me.  i tried to use mount to see a network share this morning for
> the first time.  i got it working with the following syntax:
> 
> mount -t smbfs -o username=user/domain-name%superfancypassword
> //server-name/share /home/winders-share
> 
> however, my first attempt was not successful using this syntax:
> 
> mount -t smbfs -o guest 0 0 //server-name/share /home/user
> 
> did i just nix my user home directory?  is there an unmount command out
> there?  i looked at /etc/fstab to no avail.  of course, there was no guest
> permissions on the winders share.  now, i don't see squat at /home/user
> including all my user files and settings.
> 
> yeah, you experts have a good chuckle with this ID 10 T error this morning.
> i had a slight winders relapse yet am preparing for more cold turkey in the
> not too distant future.
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