File sharing/mounting

[adelsin]

I am taking CCNA courses at my vocational school and right now we are studying Network Operating Systems. So what a better way to learn then to setup a home network. I managed to put together a P2 server with Debian. For some reason, I'm attached to Debian. And I understand most of the command. I used Samba to set up the network between the Linux "server" and my Window Xp pro. Then I used Komba2 to view it. Now, since this linux machine is on a budget, I only managed to come across a 3.2 gig Hard drive. And I put a bunch of movies in the shared folder. 330 mb worth. when I mount that folder, and I calculate how much space I have left on my hard drive, it calculates that in it too. And for some reason, I can't seem to unmount it. It says it's in use, but I made sure Everything was closed on both machines.
So the questions I ask is, how do I unmount and why is it using my hard drive space when it's on another computer?

Thanks!

[shawoho]

Samba is a daemon....
Samba shows you what it has found with the smb protocol.... If you want to mount something you should try NFS for *nix to *nix sharing... Samba do not mount nothing.... that's why you see your own space disk....

[deanlinkous]

If I understand correctly what you are saying then...

I assume the movies are on the XP machine and you are browsing that fromthe linux machine?

Once you mount it then it is (for all intents and purposes) part of your filesystem.

If you mounted it via the comandline then you can browse it with konqueror or whatever file manager you want to use.

To unmount it you need to make sure that everything is closed and you may need to make sure that the last place you were at is NOT in that share. (did that make sense) Also Komba itself may be holding the mount point or something.Are you trying to unmount via command line or what? Also you probably need to make sure (if command line) that you are not in that directory in your shell.