Remote mount of a cdrom

Burn Alting burn at goldweb.com.au
Wed Sep 25 19:45:48 EST 2002


Matthew,

Thank you. That solved the problem ... the /mnt/cdrom has to be treated as a 
separate filesystem.

Regards

Burn
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:48, you wrote:
> --- Burn Alting <burn at goldweb.com.au> wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:09, you wrote:
> > > 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
>
> I think your problem may be that linux NFS won't
> export across filsystems (like Solaris NFS will).
> /mnt/cdrom is a different filesystem to /.
>
> Have you tried:
>
> /mnt/cdrom       host_cdrw(rw,no_root_squash)
>
> Then run:
> exportfs -av
>
> Then mount /mnt/cdrom before restarting the NFS
> server:
>
> /etc/init.d/nfs restart
>
>
> If that still doesn't work, then I recommend
> installing ethereal and sniffing the traffic on the
> wire. It should decode the mount/NFS resquests and
> responses info an easily readable format.
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
>
>
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