How do I export a CD-RW drive?

[Dr. David Kirkby]

Hi,
I have an Ultra 80 (sparrow) running Solaris 9. Several file systems
are exported via /etc/dfs/dfstab

share -o rw -d "downloads_on_sparrow" /downloads
share -o rw -d "export_home_sparrow" /export/home
share -o ro -d "cdrw_on_sparrow" /cdrom
share -o rw -d "usr_local_on_sparrow" /usr/local
share -o rw -d "usr_local_src_on_sparrow" /usr/local/src
share -o rw -d "export_home_davek_old_on_sparrow"
/export/home/davek/old

I then attempt to mount file systems on a client running Solaris 2.5.

# mount sparrow:/usr/local /usr/local
that works fine.

But
# mount sparrow:/cdrom /cdrom
results in a mounted file system, but the contents of the CD-ROM can't
be seen. I tried exporting it read-only (it is actually a CD-RW), but
that did not work either.

Any suggestions.

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[Oscar del Rio]

> share -o ro -d "cdrw_on_sparrow" /cdrom

> # mount sparrow:/cdrom /cdrom

> results in a mounted file system, but the contents of the CD-ROM can't
> be seen.

You have to export and mount the actual mount point, such as
/cdrom/whatever-cdrom-label

Since the CD label is variable, you can instead export
and mount /cdrom/cdrom0, just remember to "shareall"
anytime you change CD

[Ben Taylor]

Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> Hi,
> I have an Ultra 80 (sparrow) running Solaris 9. Several file systems
> are exported via /etc/dfs/dfstab
>
> share -o rw -d "downloads_on_sparrow" /downloads
> share -o rw -d "export_home_sparrow" /export/home
> share -o ro -d "cdrw_on_sparrow" /cdrom
> share -o rw -d "usr_local_on_sparrow" /usr/local
> share -o rw -d "usr_local_src_on_sparrow" /usr/local/src
> share -o rw -d "export_home_davek_old_on_sparrow"
> /export/home/davek/old
>
> I then attempt to mount file systems on a client running Solaris 2.5.
>
> # mount sparrow:/usr/local /usr/local
> that works fine.
>
> But
> # mount sparrow:/cdrom /cdrom
> results in a mounted file system, but the contents of the CD-ROM can't
> be seen. I tried exporting it read-only (it is actually a CD-RW), but
> that did not work either.

An easier way to share a cdrom automatically is to put it in
/etc/rmmount.conf

# share CDROM
share cdrom*

[Richard L. Hamilton]

In article <HCInA...@mie.utoronto.ca>,

You can also have vold (rmmount actually) take care of it. Just add

share cdrom* -o ro=access_list,root=access_list

(where access_list is a colon separated list of hostnames, or something else
permitted to control what client a share is exported to; see share_ufs(1m))

at the end of /etc/rmmount.conf

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