Ubuntu
cifs-utils package

  1. Bug #427896
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 427896

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Graham Klyne (gk-launchpad) wrote :

I'm seeing this problem in Ubuntu 8.10 (LTS).

I see that /proc/mounts and /etc/mtab are out of sync with regard to CIFS mounts.

I'm running mount.cifs and umount.cifs from a non-root user, but /sbin/mount.cifs and /sbin/umount.cifs have been modified using "chmod +s ..."

Googling indicates a problem in umount.cifs that is known to the Debian and Samba communities: that the umount is succceeding, but failing to update /etc/mtab. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=461048. That report also refers to https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4370 - apparently this is fixed in the Samba master codebase.

I'd like to know if this is fixed in a later Ubuntu version; i.e. will upgrading fix the problem for me?