Cannot access CD-ROM

[Joel Hammer]

Well, that is the same as in linux.
It depends how much you are going to be changing cd's.
You might try putting a root postexec in there to umount the cdrom after you are
done, although, if mulitple users are using the cdrom, that won't help.
Joel
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:56:21AM -0800, Joseph Maxwell wrote:
> Except that the cdrom on the FreeBSD machine seems to behave like a
> hard disk w/ an entry in /etc/fstab requiring an explicit mount/umount
> even when changing discs.
> 
> Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> > Would it not be more reliable if you didn't mount the cdrom each time
> > someone logged on to it? Why not just keep the cdrom mounted all the time?
> > There is no postexec command to umount it, so it will stay mounted once
> > anyone used it.
> > Does /etc/mount /cdrom works when run from the command line?
> > This works fine for me, once my cdrom is mounted:
> > [cdrom]
> >         comment = CDROM
> >         path = /mnt/cdrom
> >         guest ok = Yes
> >
> > Browseable is on by default.
> > Joel
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 06:58:34AM -0800, Joseph Maxwell wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >    I've tried to configure my CD-ROM into my network smb.conf file but
> > > w/ no success, could someone advise?
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > --  Joe  --
> > >
> > > file snippet ==>
> > >
> > >
> > > [CDROM]
> > >
> > >       path = /CDROM
> > >       browseable = yes
> > >       root preexec = /etc/mount /cdrom
> > >       guest ok = yes
> > >
> > >
> >
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