Cannot unmount CIFS share, unmount states "This utility only unmounts cifs filesystems"

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Issue

  • Unable to unmount CIFS mount with error message:
# umount /mnt/cifs_share
This utility only unmounts cifs filesystems.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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