Un-mounting network volumes with command line

Does anyone know how to unmount a network volume from the command line in OSX. Using umount deletes the mount but not the mount point. I can't get diskutil or disktool to do it.

I don't use smb much, but it does look like there's something funny going on. On my system, smb shares mounted from the "Finder" are unmounted normally (mountpoint deleted, "Finder" icon gone) using: 'umount', or eg.<pre>osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to eject disk "volumename (not mountpoint name)"</pre>But shares mounted using 'mount_smbfs' behave as you describe with respect to the "Finder". But I couldn't reproduce the ".autodiskmounted" file issue in my limited testing involving "normal" use. Sorry, I don't have much more to add - maybe someone more familiar with smb can comment...

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I'm sure there's a way to Script it, but that being beyond my capabilities, here's how I'd do it using Dynamic mounts...
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eljonco wrote:
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