Posting this problem to the kernel list was a good idea -- I got a
private message this morning with a good explanation of the ncpfs
problem. It seems that the Novell server ignores close requests that
come from a process id different from the process that opened the file.
Since ncpfs is tracking opens at the inode level, the process that
opened the file may not even exist when the inode is unused.
I asked the person to contact you directly, as he has some patches that
take care of the problem. I'll make sure this gets resolved in the
2.1.xx ncpfs code.
Regards,
Bill