Rob Gillen wrote on Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 05:42:12PM -0400 :
> Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, the thing is that when I drop down 
> to runlevel 1, pretty much everything is killed off except kernel-level 
> processes. At that point, both Samba daemons, smbd and nmbd, are not 
> running (checked using ps). If I try to do a 'ls' on the mounted 
> directory, I get an "Input/output error." If I try to umount it, I get a 

Doesn't matter if smbd is running.  This is a MOUNT.  It is handled
directly by the kernel for outbound samba requests for accessing a
remote Samba or NT or Windows share.  smbd is a program that runs in
userland that provides a service for inbound samba requests where the
program LOOKS like an NT server.

> (I believe) "Device busy" error, which means that I will not be able to 
> unmount it. If I try to use fuser to see what is holding it up, I get 
> //RGILLEN/shared on /home/borgille/mnt/RGILLEN/shared type smbfs (0)

umount -f /home/borgille/mnt/RGILLEN/shared

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