floppy mounting for client

secprovider · 08-30-2003, 05:27 AM

Hi,

in linux, you can mount your floppy by $ mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

In the client/server environment /dev/fd0 is the floppy disk of server. So if the client wants to mount his floppy how should be the command?

$mount ???? /mnt/floppy

mtools can be used for this purpose, but I wonder how to mount.

Thanx

agaly77 · 08-30-2003, 05:56 AM

The command: mount /mnt/floppy should work. Actually if ur floppy drive (/dev/fd0) has appropriate config in your fstab, there is no need to enter mount /dev/fd0/ /mnt/floppy . Just mount /mnt/floppy must work. At least I had never problems.

secprovider · 08-30-2003, 06:17 AM

Thanks,

But fstab is under /etc/fstab and this can also be used by server. So let's say your home directory is/home/user. Where do you put the fstab and how do you specify your floppy in the fstab for this user. My question is this actually!!!

Quote:

Originally posted by agaly77
The command: mount /mnt/floppy should work. Actually if ur floppy drive (/dev/fd0) has appropriate config in your fstab, there is no need to enter mount /dev/fd0/ /mnt/floppy . Just mount /mnt/floppy must work. At least I had never problems.

Mathieu · 08-30-2003, 11:28 AM

The /etc/fstab applies to all users on the Linux box.

In order to allow a user to mount and un-mount a floppy, you need to append the option user on the floppy line in /etc/fstab.
For example:

Code:

/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,rw,user,exec 0 0

secprovider · 08-31-2003, 05:05 AM

Hi,

So as a result, you say to mount the floppy, the client can also use
$ mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

Ok. But then how can the client mount the floppy of the server ??

Thanx

Quote:

Originally posted by Mathieu
The /etc/fstab applies to all users on the Linux box.

In order to allow a user to mount and un-mount a floppy, you need to append the option user on the floppy line in /etc/fstab.
For example:

Code:

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,rw,user,exec 0 0