On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Amodiovalerio [Hypo] Verde wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem with autofs ( well I think is autofs related ).
> 
> Using fedora, kernel 2.6.4, autofs 4.1.1.
> 
> Set up a smb share and it works quite fine mounting and unmounting it.
> 
> The problem is that autofs seems not be able to umount the share when the
> share became unavailable ( like stopping sharing the directory ).

But autofs doesn't know that you have stopped sharing it.
Does smbfs know?

> 
> When I'm in the share, and share goes away, autofs won't umount it, also if
> timeout is expired.

And when your'e "in" the share it's busy as far as autofs is concerned.
If that's what you mean?

> 
> (with previos version of autofs, I could see in message log all the
> timeouts, so I assume it will try to umount the share).

Don't understand this.
You can choose what you see in the log with "--verbose" or "--debug".

> 
> If I do an ls it just give me a "ls: testdir: Invalid slot" until I manually
> umount the share. ( I'm able to umount the share manually without forcing
> and without any error )

Is the mount point busy or not?
If it's not then autofs should umount it after the timeout.

Ian

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