Ubuntu smbmount error

smbmount error in ubuntu

Sumakit ulo ko dito, saka ko na explain. Basta nagloko smbmount.

Sometimes, smbmount fails. Your mounted directory doesnt show up in file explorer but it shows up in terminal (through command ls -ltu). However, its permissions change to d?????????. Quite irritating.

The solution to this is to unmount it with command

sudo umount -l

That is small letter L, not number 1

What does -l mean? From man umount,

-l Lazy unmount. Detach the filesystem from the filesystem hierarchy now, and cleanup all references to the filesystem as soon as it is not busy anymore. (Requires kernel 2.4.11 or later.)

Laziness wins for now.