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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