> How the heck, explicitly, do I export the CDROM so other
> machines can mount and read the darn thing?! I've exported and
> can read the root level and /raid from all Unix boxes on our
> network, but I can't read a thing out of /mnt/cdrom from ANY of
> the same Unix boxes. What the heck happened?
> I have searched HI and LOW and cannot find a definitive answer
> to this question. Please forgive me if I've searched in the
> wrong places, but all I can find is that the 'knfsd changed' and
> recommendations to 'put it in the /etc/exports file' and then
> try 'exportfs -avr and see if there are any errors'. I've tried
> and I'm stupid and I'm failing miserably.
> I had been running Redhat 5.2 and was loving that I could cd
> from any Unix box in our network to /net/linuxbox/mnt/cdrom and
> have it work. If I recall correctly, any volume under the
> exported root volume was automatically accessible to any of the
> remote clients (within security limitations).
> I'm running Redhat 6 now and this is certainly not the case any
> longer. I AM DYING HERE!!! Take a nice feature and then fix it,
> man. Excuse my obvious frustration, but I've spent the last 6
> freaking hours reading, searching, trying, yada, yada, yada and
> have gotten NOWHERE. God, am I a MORON or what?! Can it really
> be this freaking difficult?
I'm not sure what your problem is, but I have both RedHat 5.2 and
RedHat 6.0 systems on my private network, and I have cdrom drives
exported both ways without problem.
The only problem I have noted is that kernels 2.2.9 and 2.2.10 appear
to have problems with the nfs daemon, as it refuses to start up under
those kernels. On 2.2.9 it just fails silently, and on 2.2.10 it
reports that nfssvc is not available...
When I need to export from RH 6.0, I'm using the 2.2.5-22 kernel as
supplied by RedHat on their updates.redhat.com site, but I also
exported them with the 2.2.5-15 kernel that came with the CD, so if
you haven't updated, that isn't your problem.
Incidentally, I also have the CD's exported from RH 6.0 using SaMBa to
systems running Win95, and that works under 2.2.10 so you could always
try that...
Best wishes from Riley.
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