Fedora 12 - how to mount a CDROM to use on a remote desktop?

[Bill Davidsen]

<div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">KC8LDO wrote:
> This likely has a simple answer, but I haven't figured it out yet. How 
> do you get a CDROM, or DVD, to mount automatically for access? I want 
> this done when a user is working remotely, using a VNC connection. Seems 
> to work for a locally connected console. On Fedora 11 I had to screw 
> around with a bunch of authorizations, using policykit, to get it to 
> work. However that framework has been ripped out of Fedora 12 so how do 
> I do it now?
> 
> The "mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom" as root does not work. Also I didn't 
> have any luck trying to specify the file system type etc in the mount 
> command.
> 
I think that's a symptom, mount as root should work no matter where you log in, 
so something's preventing. I assume you use read-only mount and looked at the 
messages to see if something was there.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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