re-post: problems umounting samba shares
Trevor "TeC" Christian
trevor at bouyon.dalive.com
Mon Apr 4 11:06:12 UTC 2005
Paul Howarth wrote:
> Trevor "TeC" Christian wrote:
>
>>>> umount: only root can unmount //192.168.100.1/public from
>>>> /mnt/smb/public
>>>>
>>>> Question though, I can mount the share as a user. How can i umount
>>>> it?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Unmount it as root this time. Then, after mounting it as a regular
>>> user,
>>> try unmounting it as the same user.
>>>
>>> Paul.
>>>
>>>
>> Same thing.
>> For a user to be able to mount smbfs...i had to chmod u+s `which
>> smbmnt`.
>> Would i need to do something similar to allow non-root users to umount?
>
>
> Do:
> # chmod u+s /usr/bin/smbumount
> and use "smbumount" to unmount your shares.
>
> Paul.
>
That works, thanks.
Am I to understand that as a regular user i will not be able to use
umount to unmount a samba share?
This creates a little bit of a problem with regards to the use of the
GUI for mounting and umounting devices. Right clicking on a device on
the desktop and selecting unmount seems to use the umount command which
only allows works for root.
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