John Hewitt <johnblade <at> gmail.com> writes: > > What distro are you using? Samba version details? > > Hmm, I can see that it would indeed cause you a mess - especially with > the symlinking. Whilst I can't give you an answer to your question I > can ask for a few more details regarding the version numbers of your > linux machine. Hopefully some other samba god will be able to help > you. > > Anyhow all I can offer is to try and manually unmount the share when > your on the linux box and you know the windows box is down. > Sometimes if umount doesn't work, you can try: > umount -f
John, Thanks for your reply. I am using Samba 3.0.0-15 on a plain vanilla fedora core-1 system with all optional components that came with the distro installed. Any other ideas? It seem that, given what I am reading so far, having Linux mount via smbfs is very dangerous thing to do. Seems odd? Howard -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
