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