It appears that the mount that I cant unmount was not actually the cdrom, but my remote home dir which is a samba share on another freebsd box.
bash-2.05b$ mount /home/edd/cdrom bash-2.05b$ umount /home/edd/cdrom bash-2.05b$ mount /home/edd/rhome bash-2.05b$ umount /home/edd/rhome umount: unmount of /home/edd/rhome failed: Operation not permitted I am in wheel. my fstab is as follows: # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1d /home ufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/acd1 /cdrom1 cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 #192.168.0.1:/mnt/media /mnt/media nfs ro 0 0 //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/media /mnt/media smbfs ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/acd0 /home/edd/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/acd1 /home/edd/cdrom1 cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/media /home/edd/media smbfs noauto,rw 0 0 //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/edd /home/edd/rhome smbfs noauto,rw 0 0 any ideas?? thanks Edd _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"