DOCUMENT ID: 1503-02 SYNOPSIS: How to share CDROM drives over a network OS RELEASE: Solaris 2.3, 2.4 PRODUCT: KEYWORDS: cdrom share filesystem DESCRIPTION: It is possible to configure Volume Management to automatically share mounted CDROMs. This allows all the users of a network to effectively share a single CDROM drive. While having many people reading from a single CDROM at a time can dramatically slow down access time, this provides a solution to the problem of needing to move around external drives, or the case where an external drive is not available. This allows users from a remote system to mount the CDROM filesystem via NFS. SOLUTION: In order to have Volume Management automatically share mounted CDROMs, edit the /etc/rmmount.conf file. Add the following lines to the end of the /etc/rmmount.conf file to make newly inserted CDROMs automatically shared. # File system sharing share cdrom* With the above addition, when a new disk is inserted, Volume Management will automatically mount it on the local system, then "share" it, thus making it mountable by remote systems. DATE APPROVED: 09/05/95