Originally to: Richard Adams
* Richard Adams's head hit the keyboard and wrote:
>> >===== 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.
Okay, I will have a look for automount and see if that does the trick.
Sean
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