[lug] Sharing of CD ROM...

[John Karns]

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Mr Viggy said:

> That's exactly what I did.  I shared out my "/mnt/cdrom" directory; then
> mounted the CD right there.
>
> I was thinking that perhaps that NFS was sharing the actual directory,
> not what was mounted there, so I changed the share to be just "/mnt".
> That didn't work either.
>
> Yeah, I tried sharing "/dev/cdrom", but 'exportfs' complained that this
> was not a folder, but a device and it couldn't share it out...
>
> Vig.

Several months ago I ran into some wierdness with NFS - couldn't get it to
mount successfully, no errors appeared in the syslogs.  It turned out to
be a problem with reiserfs, and was rectified after I updated the kernel.
So it could be related to your choice of fs on the exporting host.

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John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net