Unable to unmount volume

We have a couple of users who have this problem occur at random times. They will have a bunch of shares mounted but there is one particular share that just refuses to disappear when the user "disconnects" from it. They can still browse the share after that, since it's still on the desktop. But, they get weird permission error messages when trying to copy files to that share when this happens.
Did a search and couldn't find anything. I know if they just reboot, the problem will go away for a while, but it inevtiably comes back.

There's probably a process that's using that share. Spotlight would be a good suspect. A little Terminal work with lsof should confirm/deny it.
Roger

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