Network Drive won't unmount

We use network drives at my college. I can connect to the drive and it works fine for a while then I tell it to eject and nothing happens. Then after a while (the ibook hasn't gone to sleep or lost its network connection) the icon for the drive disappears. Then when I try to recconnect it says I'm already connected but i don't see any icon to access. Any ideas about this? Everything fixes after a restart but that's really annoying

ibook G3, Mac OS X (10.4.5), 640mb ram

Posted on Mar 8, 2006 12:13 PM

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Mar 9, 2006 8:53 AM in response to Abby Razer

You can try using the Finder's Network -> server name -> "Connect..." button to show you what volume(s) your Mac thinks it is still connected to on the server. This should display a list of all its volumes you have access rights for, including any you are already connected to. The mounted ones will be greyed out, & there is no "disconnect" option for them, but it will at least tell you what the Finder thinks you are still connected to.

More of a workaround than a fix, but have you tried relauching Finder? (One way: Option-click on its Dock icon & choose "Relaunch" from the popup menu.)

This works for me when my list shows an icon-less volume or when the server quits responding & Finder is slow to notice that it has.

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