On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Sean Rima wrote about, RE: Auto mounting a cd on a NFS server:
> >===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =====
> >> > I cannot comment on automounting as i have never used it.
> >> > I also belive automounting such disks is not a good idea on a NFS
> >> > server.
> >>
> >> The server is blocked to the outside world but I understand your view.
> >
> >I was not really talking secutity, i was talking a cdrom getting umounted
> >or some protocol attemting to unmount a device when it is in use elsewhere.
> >As i said i have no automount experiance, however i just read the man page,
> >first question is do you have the automount daemon running when the cdrom
> >automount fails.?
>
> mountd is running on both machines and should mount the dirs as required.
It will undoubably mount the "dir(s)" upon request, but it "wont" mount and
unmount the cdrom for you, the cdrom is mounted in the spesified directory,
normally speaking /cdrom.
If you export /cdrom in /etc/exports file of the monitorless machine then a
remote host connects to that "directory" if the cdrom is not mounted the
directory will still be exported but will remain "empty" untill a cdrom is
mounted IN /cdrom. futher more you will not be able to extract the cdrom
untill the device is unmounted by hand.
This is why i suggested 'automount' i also said i have absolutly no
experiance with the said program, as to it helping in this case i cannot
comment.
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Regards Richard
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http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
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