[comp.protocols.nfs] Can server tell client to unmount?

bkc@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Brad Clements) (06/11/89)

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