macOS: How to eject a remote disk?

Question

I've a problem with my MacBook Pro 2017 running macOS 10.12.6 Sierra: I cannot eject a remote disk that was mounted. No app is using the disk.

How can I eject the remote disk properly?

Have you tried diskutil unmountDisk force /Volumes/DISK_NAME? — bret7600, Oct 5, 2017 at 14:31
How do you try to eject it? What errors do you get? How did you verify that no application/process is using the disk? — nohillside, Oct 5, 2017 at 14:56
@patrix I selected the unit and then I pressed cmd+E. No error appeared. I just typed top on terminal and guessed what app can use the disk — yngabl, Oct 5, 2017 at 15:04

yngabl · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-05 15:16:15Z

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I just found the answer in the apple support, namely write the following

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.NetworkBrowser EnableODiskBrowsing -bool false

and then

killall Finder

To enable again just write true in place of false.

answered Oct 5, 2017 at 15:16

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