[lug] Sharing of CD ROM...

[Mr Viggy]

I would agree, except that the exporting host is ext2.  Nothing fancy.

;-)

I got around the problem by copying the CD onto the HD, and exported 
that folder.  It all worked rather nicely.  Although, I've gotten 
spoiled.  I forgotten how slow a Pentium 233MHz is...

Vig.

John Karns wrote:

> 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
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