mounting smbfs and RH9 problems

From: Jiann-Ming Su (jsu2_at_emory.edu)
Date: 10/31/03

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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 01:23:51 -0500 (EST)

    When I try to mount a smbfs share on my RH9 system, mount or smbmount
    fails to return the shell. The share does get mounted, though.
    Doing a quick search on google groups, looks like I'm not the only
    person who has ran into this.

    http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=8vAFa.22662%24MM4.4787628%40news0.telusplanet.net&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dsmbmount%2Bnot%2Breturning%2Bshell%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D8vAFa.22662%2524MM4.4787628%2540news0.telusplanet.net%26rnum%3D1

    http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=20030612141017%2453ea%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dsamba%2Bproblem%2Bafter%2Bupgrading%2Bredhat%2B9%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D20030612141017%252453ea%2540gated-at.bofh.it%26rnum%3D1

    Is there a fix for this? 

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