Remote mount of a cdrom

[Bob Edwards]

Burn Alting wrote:
> 
> Hi Peoples,
> 
> I have two Redhat 7.2's. One has a CDRW and the other just a plain CD.
> I want to mount the 'plain' CD on the other system.
> 
> I've edited the 'plain' CD systems /etc/exports file with
>         /       host_cdrw(rw,no_root_squash)
> and reexported all filesystems. Then, on host_cdrw, I run
> 
>         mount \
>         -o ro host_cd:/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> 
> This fails with 'Permission denied' and on the plain CD system the log shows
> Sep 25 14:37:32 host_cdrw rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from
> 192.168.1.100:862 for /mnt/cdrom (/)
> Sep 25 14:37:32 host_cdrw rpc.mountd: getfh failed: Operation not permitted
> 
> Reading between the lines, the get file handle code says you can do this.
> 
> Can any one suggest what I need to do?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Burn

You didn't select any level of "firewalling" when you installed RH7.2, did
you. If you select anything other that "none", then NFS will not work on your
machine. If this is the case, disable IPCHAINS or IPTABLES (or both), in
your start up directory, using, for example, ntsysv. Make sure that your
machines have other protection from the nasties on the Internet before you
do this!

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.