Hello.

This may be a silly question, but I can't find the answer by googling.

When I stupidly forget to unmount my laptop before removing it from my
network, my system momentarily jams up, looking for the computer I'm
assuming. I have tried re-smbmounting the laptop, killing smbmount,
deleting the mount point, etc. but the only way I have found that solves
the problem is to reboot. This is no doubt a time consuming way to pay
for an oversite.

Short way to the point?

Is there an easier way to reset the mount point so that the computer isn't
searched for every time a call is made to my home directory?

Thank you.

On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:51:26 -0500, ned
<njm@myconco.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> This may be a silly question, but I can't find the answer by googling.
>
> When I stupidly forget to unmount my laptop before removing it from my
> network, my system momentarily jams up, looking for the computer I'm
> assuming. I have tried re-smbmounting the laptop, killing smbmount,
> deleting the mount point, etc. but the only way I have found that solves
> the problem is to reboot. This is no doubt a time consuming way to pay
> for an oversite.
>
> Short way to the point?
>
> Is there an easier way to reset the mount point so that the computer isn't
> searched for every time a call is made to my home directory?
>
> Thank you.

One thing that might work is to temporarily route the laptop's IP
address to the loopback interface.

route add -host 1.2.3.4 lo


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