Is it posible to make the dvd drive in my server mountable from networked clients.

Running SUSE 10.0 with NFS.

Thanks

It really needs to be mounted to start with from the machine and then share the mount poiint on samba, nfs, or others.

If you have the room on the drive, you can make an ISO of the dvd and mount the ISO and share the mount point of the ISO. Now you not need to keep the DVD drive tied up.

Brian

My manuals come on CD's. I would like to have dedicated CD Drives in the server to read from on the network. Is there a way of doing that?

I see no problem. You just share the mount point the drive is mounted too. Are you having an error or problem doing this?

Brian

In YAST if I try to export media:/hdc it tells me the directory does not exist.
Create it?

Never used YAST in Suse but the export you mention does not make since. To me one would export /media/hdc or what ever the optical drive is mounted too. The : does not make since to me. What do you have in your /etc/exports file?

What is the mount point of the optical drive. That can be determined from the /etc/fstab file.

Brian

Exported as /media/dvd on server
server remote file system mount point
Client is 10.8.8.6 /media/dvd /dvd

error on client= Unable to mount the NFS entries from /etc/fstab

/etc/fstab=

/dev/hda3 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
none /subdomain subdomainfs noauto 0 0
10.8.8.6:/server /server nfs defaults 0 0
10.8.8.6:/media/dvd /dvd nfs defaults 0 0


It looks like the system is expecting an NFS file system.
What do you think.
Steven

You have /media/dvd exported but your fstab has /media/cdrom. Shouldn't they be the same?

My laptop has a cdrom drive thats why there is /dev/cdrom

/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

My server ip is 10.8.8.6

10.8.8.6:/server /server nfs defaults 0 0
10.8.8.6:/media/dvd /dvd nfs defaults 0 0

Your fstab command looks like mine for the most part. I just have addition options.

So I assume /dvd directory exist on the client machine to mount the share too?
Also is there a firewall on the nfs server. If so then have you allowed all the needed ports for the nfs connection. If there is a firewall I would disable the firewall and flush all iptables. Then try connecting.

Brian

Brian thank you for your time and input.

The /dvd is on the client
The server eth0 is external to the firewall and connects to the cable modem.
Eth1 is internal and used as the network with all ports open and unprotected.

client machine
Internal Zone
Interfaces
Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 SP Mobile Combo Adapter
Open Services, Ports, and Protocols
Internal zone is unprotected. All ports are open.
The firewall on the client is off.

I am beginning to wonder if this is possible. Are you able to do this with a different distro?

I don't know what you are using as a firewall tool on the server but if iptables based then post the output of ' /sbin/iptables -L '.

To me it seems something is being blocked. Just to rule it out I would do the following. Disconnect from the cable modem. Disable the firewall. Then run these commands to enable masquerade mode. Then try connecting.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/doc...ple-HOWTO.html
Assuming external internet card is eth0, and external IP is 123.12.23.43 and the internal network card is eth1, then:

$> modprobe ipt_MASQUERADE # If this fails, try continuing anyway
$> iptables -F; iptables -t nat -F; iptables -t mangle -F
$> iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j SNAT --to 123.12.23.43
$> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

Now try nfs to server.
Brian

Sorry it took me so long to get back to this.
The server is the router and has ip forwarding and ip masquerade working.
I have no problems mounting the subdirectory /server from the client machines.
I tried this for an fstab in the client (laptop)

/dev/hda3 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
none /subdomain subdomainfs noauto 0 0
10.8.8.6:/server /server nfs defaults 0 0
10.8.8.6:/media/dvd /dvd subfs, noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

When I try to mount /dvd i get no items no files no folders.