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From: bkc@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Brad Clements)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Can server tell client to unmount?
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Date: 10 Jun 89 18:44:29 GMT
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I've been messing around w/ re-writing SOS to run with NCSA telnet.
Looks like I could come up w/ a combined telbin.exe and sos.exe
which users could then use to log into a Sun system, and automount
their PC disks. (For tar'ing files, etc)

However, when a user wants to exit telbin, or the nfs server, i'd
like to be able to have the client system unmount the exported
directories. I don't know of any way for that to happen, does
anyone know?

Supposedly a system administrator could set the time limit
option to be small when starting automount, but that'd be a pain.
Also, sometimes our SUN OS 4.0.1 system has hung for several
minutes at a time when it tried to unmount a server disk after
the server went away..

So the question is, is there a standard way for a server to tell
a client to dismount?

Brad Clements
Network Engineer
Clarkson University