Are you both trying to mount to the same mount point? The paths below  
suggest that. Only one filesystem can be mounted at any given mount  
point.

I would expect that you should be able to mount samba shares to  
different mount points without problems.

On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:22 PM, Robert Citek wrote:

>
> Can the same Windows share be mounted by two different users on a
> single Linux system?
>
> This is a back-burner issue, but ran across it and wondered.  I had
> ssh'ed into one of our linux boxes and then used smbmount to mount a
> Windows share (e.g. //foo/share).  A few minutes later a colleague of
> mine logged into the same linux box and also tried to mount //foo/
> share, but was denied (//foo/share is already mounted.)  Only when I
> unmounted using smbumount was my colleague able to mount the share,
> but then I was not.  We were able to work around this (a few changes
> in mount points and permissions and all was good enough), but
> wondered if preventing multiple mounts for a Windows share is a
> limitation in Samba/Windows or if we need to adjust some setting or
> something else?
>
> This is a FC4 box with Samba 3.0.14a-2.
>
> Thanks in advance for any pointers.
>

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