Unmounting shared firewire drive

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I have a firewire drive that's shared across a network on W2K. But it seems
that I can't "unplug or eject" my firewire drive when I try to remove
it. I think it's because the other computer connected to it maintains
a connection.

If no one has connected to the firewire drive, I can stop and remove
it w/o a problem. But after someone connects to it, I'm unable to
remove it cleanly (short of just unplugging the device)- it says to
try later. Even if they have closed out of that drive's folders.

I wouldn't mind just unplugging it, but seems after I do that, the
other computers have issues trying to reconnect to the drive when I
connect it back onto my computer.

Thanks in advance.
 
Newsreader said:
I have a firewire drive that's shared across a network on W2K. But it seems
that I can't "unplug or eject" my firewire drive when I try to remove
it. I think it's because the other computer connected to it maintains
a connection.
Click to expand...

You could force the network connection to disconnect by using the net
command.
I wouldn't mind just unplugging it, but seems after I do that, the
other computers have issues trying to reconnect to the drive when I
connect it back onto my computer.
Click to expand...

I guess the same problem occurs when you force the network disconnect. Yet
to me it sounds better disconnect the network and to eject cleanly to
prevent any caches and open files to be partially written to the drive.

Reg.
Og
 
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