strange mounting problem?

[Humbletech99]

Hi,
I've got this weird mounting problem: I go to remount an smb share which is already mounted because I need to get it rw and it's only ro at the minute, so I do:

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mount -t smbfs -o remount,rw,username=myuser //hostname/sharename /mnt/folder
Password:
mount error: Invalid argument
Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page
smbmnt failed: 255

I works fine if I take the "remount," out of it, it mounts - covering up what was previously there. The drive was mounted, I can browse the files and it shows up when I do:

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mount|grep sharename
cat /etc/mtab
cat /proc/mounts

All three show it as being mounted, so why the heck doesn't mount think it is? If I then retry the original command with remount I get the same error, even though I manually just mounted it!

Also, even if it wasn't mounted (which is was/is), then shouldn't mount stop wingeing and just mount it?

[Scotti]

I'm not sure about your issue, but if you want to browse and mount network shares, a GUI I use is xSMBrowser. It does all the mounting stuff for me. Perhaps give that a try.

[Humbletech99]

cheers, thanks for that, I'll give it a try. I'm just curious why this one machine doesn't play ball when I have done this command countless times on all manner of linux boxes and it's always worked.