Re: nautilus sends me back to my homedir

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 20:35 +0100, Natxo Asenjo wrote:
> On 11/13/06, Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 07:32 +0100, Natxo Asenjo wrote:
> > > (reposted, I sent it yesterday but I never saw it in my inbox)
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I googled for an equivalent problem and solution but couldn't find one.
> > >
> > > I have an nfs server exporting homedirs with autofs+ldap. It works
> > > great. It also exports other folders. With the homedirs there is no
> > > problem at all, but with the other nfs shares I get this weird
> > > behaviour. After 1 minute (approx) nautilus takes me back to my
> > > homedir. This can be quite irritating (I am already getting complaints
> > > here from users).
> >
> > It looks like autofs is umounting your other dirs after 1 minute
> > (Nautilus doesn't "lock" the directory on purpose, otherwise you wouln't
> > be able to eject removable drives when they have an opened window on
> > them). Maybe just put a longer timeout.
> 
> strange. The timeout was indeed 1 minute, but I had never seen this
> behaviour before with 2.14 or with konqueror. The homedirs had also
> the same timeout and those do not experience the same symptons. It
> seems to work though. Thanks.

Things (like cwd) normally keep files open on the homedir, protecting
against an unmount. Nautilus doesn't, so that you can unmount e.g.
removable media.

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