how can I (really) force a umount?

From: Gary Dale (garydale_at_rogers.com)
Date: 11/15/04

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    Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:24:57 -0500

    I'm connecting to a couple of shares on an XP Pro workstation - not a
    good idea, I know, but it's convenient in this case except:

    sometimes the XP workstation gets rebooted while the shares are
    connected. After that, I can't disconnect them and I can't reconnect
    them. This creates a real problem because some programs (esp. under
    wine) seem to read the full /mnt folder so they take forever.

    I've tried umount //server/share --force as root but it doesn't work. I
    get 4 or 5 error messages telling me things like the device is busy, etc..

    Any solutions?

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