Hi, I'm using smbmount in my redhat 7.3 server to mount win me boxes and backup them with taper, then release the mount after backup. backup# smbmount //jason/c/ /mnt/smbfs/jason backup# taper ..... backup# smbumount /mnt/smbfs/jason backup# smbmount //company/c /mnt/smbfs/company backup# taper .... backup# smbumount /mnt/smbfs/company If everything is going good, this combination works fine. But if the win box that I'm backing up crashed or swtiched off while it is still mounting, I couldn't smbumount it at all. I couldn't kill it with kill -9 either. The only thing I can do is restart the linux server. Is there any way to write some simple script to dectect the mount's condition and if the mount is bad, is there anyway to umount it? -Jason