topic Re: Mount remote CD Rom in Operating System - Linux

Mount remote CD Rom

peterchu — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 00:58:57 GMT

We have only one CD Rom in our system , is it Ok to mount the remote CDROm as local one ?
Thx

Re: Mount remote CD Rom

Alexander Chuzhoy — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 01:10:19 GMT

Of course you should share it on remote machine first.
So if you shared it via NFS.
then the mount command would be:
mount x.x.x.x:/sharepath /mnt/localdir
Hope it helps...

Re: Mount remote CD Rom

Francisco J. Soler — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 04:20:54 GMT

Hi,

yes, it is possible to mount a remote CD as local via NFS.

You must export it first from your local CD, something like this:

a) mount your cdrom locally
mount /mnt/cdrom

b) export the mounted cdrom in the local macnhine
exportfs -i -o ro *:/mnt/cdrom

Mount via nfs the cdrom in the box without cdrom

c) once you no longer need it
exportfs -u *:/mnt/cdrom

d) umount the local cdrom

Frank.