Sharing CD-ROM over Samba on Fedora 8 *solved*

max maximilianbianco at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 19:59:11 UTC 2008


Rick Stevens wrote:
> max wrote:
>> Daniel Tweedy wrote:
>>> I put this line in my /etc/fstab file
>>>
>>> /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
>>>
>>> The cdrom doesn't mount on bootup which I believe to be correct due 
>>> to the noauto part.
>>>
>>> I played around with the samba config and found that the paths I was 
>>> using for mount and unmount were incorrect, corrected the paths and 
>>> now it mounts and unmounts fine.
>>>
>>
>> Cool. Just one question though, I am not trying to be confrontational 
>> or anything, this solution automatically mounts and shares whatever is 
>> in the cd drive? I can easily imagine putting a cd, say with backups 
>> or other personal info, into the drive that I may not really want to 
>> share.
> 
> Then disable the automount options for the CD drive(s).  In Gnome:
> 
>     System->Preferences->Hardware->Removable Drives and Media
> 
> Uncheck "Mount removable media when inserted".  Note that from now on,
> you'll have to manually mount the media, and there will NOT be a /media
> entry for the drive to mount to.  To solve:
> 
> 1. Create something like "mkdir /mnt/cdrom" and export that via Samba.
> 2. When you have a CD you want to share, "mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom".
> 

  that's what I was looking for....thanks !




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