how to unmount (CIFS) NAS on shutdown?

I added an entry to /etc/fstab to automagically mount my NAS on start-up:

Code:

# Entry for automounting network attached storage locally
//192.168.2.5/MyBook /home/jeff/MyBook cifs
fmask=0777,dmask=0777,auto,sync 0 0

On shut-down, though, I often get an error message. Something along the lines of

Code:

CIFS server not responding

And it will fail to unmount the share. Is there someplace I can add an entry (like I did for fstab) to forcibly unmount during the shutdown process?

 

Bump - same problem here takes ages to shutdown due to cifs unmount I think.

 

I think this happens with all shares mounted via CIFS. I have some server shares mounted that aren't NAS and get the same message - it takes ages to shut down.

I would guess that it shuts down the networking daemon before the filesystem and hence cannot unmount the shares correctly, but i could be talking out of my backside - wouldn't be the first time!

 

The other opinions I've gotten seem to concur with yours, Andysan: Network manager gets shut down before it unmounts shares. They also seem to think it's not that big of a deal.

 

I do have a follow-up question, though: I don't have ownership/permissions set right on the share. I can't modify any files. I've tried to chown to me, but it says permission denied. I've tried to set permissions on the Windows side such that it's shared read-/write-able, but it always seems to revert. I assume my problems are with XP... but I can't figger it out. Any idea what I can do to get read/write permissions set correctly?

 

Try adding the noperm parameter to your fstab entry. This tells the client to let the server side handle the permissions. If your permissions on the server side are OK then this should work.

Code:

//192.168.2.5/MyBook /home/jeff/MyBook cifs
fmask=0777,dmask=0777,noperm,auto,sync 0 0

 

So is there anyway to help speed up the shutdown process?

Ta

 

I have found one solution, but have not tested it and therefore do not know of the ramifications:

Do this in a terminal:

Code:

cd /etc/rc6.d
ls -la

You will see two files S31umountnfs.sh and S15wpa-ifupdown.sh. The number represents the order at which the script runs. All you need to do is change when the umountnfs.sh script runs. Do that by typing in:

Code:

sudo mv S31umountnfs.sh S14umountnfs.sh

You will need to run the command one more time in the /etc/rc0.d folder too.

Source

 

Thanks will give this a try and report back.