Hi, What I meant is, even if umount the cdrom drive from the client and then do a shutdown even, I am unable to umount cdrom from the server. This typically happens after my remote installation of debian/redhat linuxes.
> > If I mount a cdrom and nfs mount it on some other machines, even after > > the other machine is switched off, I am unable to umount the cdrom > ~~~~~~~~~~~ > Please elaborate. > Do you mean you just shutdown the other machine ? Or that you umount the > cdrom ? > Theoritically I should be able to unmount without shutting down nfsd isntit? My memory says, I was able to do it with my old redhat boxes(rh 4.* and 5.*) > Other than that you can try to shutdown nfsd (don't count on that, I haven't > tried it) > Suresh ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Suresh Kumar.R, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Electronics & Communication College of Engineering, Trivandrum - 695 016, INDIA Phone: (O) 91 471 414634/418379, (R) 91 471 443496