[Samba] smbmount not exiting

[Zenon Panoussis]

Joel Hammer wrote:

 >>The obvious suspect is exit trapping between smbmount and smbmnt, but
 >>that's a suspicion that won't hold in court; it's sheer speculation.

> Well, smbmount is a process that runs until you umount the share.
> This seems like normal behavior.

It's a daemon. When you start a daemon you're supposed to get
your prompt back, along with an exit code indicating whether
the daemon started well or not. Getting your prompt hijacked
by a daemon is not normal behaviour.

In the meanwhile I found other similar reports:

https://listman.redhat.com/archives/shrike-list/2003-June/msg00211.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103202
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=bug+mount+linux+smbfs&start=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&selm=3ec4e3ee%240%2418200%2491cee783%40newsreader01.highway.telekom.at&rnum=20
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=bug+mount+linux+smbfs&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&selm=3f04587e%240%2443849%2439cecf19%40news.twtelecom.net&rnum=9
http://lists.ethernal.org/cantlug-0306/msg00605.html

All of them are on Redhat 9, all of them are recent, from the past
two-three months. I'll try installing a samba.org RPM and see if
I still have the same problem.

Z