Ted Kaczmarek wrote: > On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 15:33, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: >> is there anyway to automatically unmount a samba share when the >> connection >> is lost? i frequently shutdown my windows machine before i remember to >> unmount the samba shares on my linux box. then on my linux box, whenever >> i try to do anything with the mount point, it just freezes...not even >> smbumount will work on it. >> >> thanks for the help. >> > Man I hope this is not the kernel bug coming back to life. > Drove me nuts . > > Are you actively accessing anything on that mount when the problem > occurs? i don't think so. > Does it happen if you are not running a gui as well? i haven't tried. > lsof and fuser might help you. actually to clarify, my whole computer doesn't freeze, just the command i issue that has to do with the share. its like this: smbmount //xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/My\ Documents My\ Documents # startup k3b, burn some stuff from My Documents # exit k3b # shutdown windows smbumount My\ Documents # this command freezes and i have to ctrl-c thanks.
