hi there,

I really need to mount a cdrom drive on my desktop. The drive is my linux box.

How can I mount that drive on my desktop? It is quite urget, because my cd drive in my desktop is screwing up.

The IP of the box is 172.24.14.229 so I tried:

# mount //172.24.14.229/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

really hope someone has an answer

thanks
hamish

I assume the following from your question: a) your "linux box" and your "desktop" are two separate computers; b) you have the mount point /mnt/cdrom on both your "linux box" as well as you "desktop"; c) "desktop" is also running linux.

On your "linux box", you have to do the following:

1) You must first make the /mnt/cdrom on "linux box" available over the network. For this you will probably use NFS. If you've never used NFS before, well, be prepared to do some learnin'. Search this site and google for "NFS Red Hat". I'll try my best:

Edit your /etc/exports file and add:
Comment out everything in /etc/hosts.deny and /hosts.allow, until you can get the NFS server working.

Then as root do:
# exportfs -r
# chkconfig --level 2345 nfs on
# service nfs restart

(This is the best advice I can give for running NFS on Red Hat; on Slackware, it is much much easier)

2) After starting NFS, mount the cd-rom drive to /mnt/cdrom (that is, /mnt/cdrom on the "linux box")
i.e. # mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom.


Now, on "desktop", do:

mount -t nfs 172.24.14.229:/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

please do NOT mark threads as urgent, and please be a little clearer... as spurious pointed out, you don't actually define any difference between the "linux box" and "desktop" machines... even if they ARE different machines in the first place.

I'm still left wondering why you need to access this mystical CD directly.... the most complete way would be to set up NFS, but maybe you can just use scp / sftp to connect to an existing ssh server running remotely?

acid_kewpie: sorry about the urget bit.

Spurious: thanks for that. It is very clear. I had already been looking at setting up and NFS server in order to do this, but now I have a fair idea of what needs doing.

Thanks for your help

hamish