Automatically forcing umount ncp filesystems

[Gabriel VLASIU]

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On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, A. Boggiano wrote:

> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:37:41 +0100
> From: A. Boggiano <boggiano at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Automatically forcing umount ncp filesystems
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> Sometimes I need to mount a Novell filesystem like this:
> 
> /sbin/ipx_configure --auto_interface=on --auto_primary=on
> /usr/bin/ncpmount -S NAMEBOX -u500 -U cn=ale.ou=tecs.o=foo -Pfoobar -V 
> Vol1 /mnt/Novell/
> 
> If I forgot to manually unmount it, the computer hangs at shutdown: I 
> waited few minutes, after that
> I pushed the poweroff button (I know... shame on me!!!) ;)
> 
> How can I avoid it ?
> Can I set a timeout, somewhere ?
Is netfs enabled? This service usually unmount ncpfs file-systems on 
shutdown. Works for me every time. And I do not use ipx but TCP.
My guess is that ipx is down before you system try to unmount the novell 
volume.


Gabriel

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