Re: [expert] Can't Access Share or Shut Down Clean

[Mark Weaver]

Felix Miata wrote:

Mark Weaver wrote:

Felix Miata wrote:

Were it so simple. I think you missed the problem entirely. These are
the share definitions as represented by /etc/fstab entries:

//z1590/E /mnt/z1590/E smbfs ro,credentials=filename,user 0 0
//z1590/G /mnt/z1590/G smbfs ro,credentials=filename,user 0 0
//z1590/I /mnt/z1590/I smbfs ro,credentials=filename,user 0 0

But it really is that simple. The idea is that the Linux box (the server
sharing the resources, in this case the dir's you've listed) does not

//z1590/I is not a Linux dir, but a network share. /mnt/z1590/I is a
Linux mount point.

have to mount or umount anything. It "serves" or makes available the
shares for client machines to authenticate to and connect to the samba
server and access the shares. You shouldn't have "anything" defined in
the samba servers fstab. All the shares are defined in the smb.conf file
as was illustrated in the file I sent along with the last message.

You still don't get it. The above entries in /etc/fstab are there to
mount resources presented to Linux by a different non-Linux machine -
client side configuration. Everything you offered is about presenting
Linux resources to other machines on the network - server side
configuration.

ah HA! this was the missing link in this chain. You're offering shares to a linux machine which now explains the mount points in your fstab. maybe I was missing it altogether the first time I read the post. guess I'll go back and re-read the original post.

Mark

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