samba - Feb 2001 - samba 2.0.7 and smbmount

Hello,

I'm running RH 6.0., just upgraded from Samba 2.0.5 to 2.0.7 and noticed the
changed use of smbmount.
Now you can put an entry in fstab, and use a nmbfs file system just as
another file system. Terrific!

The share I mount is on a Win2k workstation, and I mount it to make backups
of my server with BRU.
One problem however. When shutting down, the system hangs, trying to unmount
the smbfs share.

I have seen some messages concerning this matter, never giving a solution.
It was treated as a bug in 2.0.7,
and it was said that the same problem didn't arise with version 2.0.6.

Does anyone knows what's the problem and how to solve it?

Thanks,
Ludo Leni?re.

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Ludo Leni?re wrote:
> The share I mount is on a Win2k workstation, and I mount it to make backups
> of my server with BRU.
> One problem however. When shutting down, the system hangs, trying to
unmount
> the smbfs share.
Known smbfs problem, it won't unmount unless it can contact the server.

This can be avoided by unmounting smbfs earlier in the shutdown scripts. I
believe this is done in later RedHat versions (upgrading to 6.2 should fix
that or you could hack the scripts yourself).

/Urban