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Avoid system stability issues on roaming machines
Authored by: lailoken on Jun 10, '03 06:53:36PM

Another possible solution could be that a mounted SMB filesystem was present at the previous location.

Since SMB uses NFS underneath, it really tries to maintain the integrity of the mounted share and it's data (very unlike SMB). To this end when an app acceses a file on that share, or if there are unwritten data still waiting to get flushed to that network drive, the machine and/or tasks may delay or block totally and you can only kill them with grat difficulty.

The answer is to make sure you unmount all network drives from the clients and servers before putting your computer to sleep and taking it to a foreign network.

Hope this helps... I've still got lots to learn of Apple computers, but my unix is okayish.



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