CentOS - Dec 2006 - kde cant mount cdroms on users with nfs home

I can't mount the cdrom when the user account has an nfs home directory. 
It works fine on the gnome side with the same user. It also works fine 
if I create a brand new local account, with no nfs mounted home directory.

This error is affecting all users on all computers; not just one 
account. The one thing in common is that they all are using nfs mounted 
home directories and that CentOS is the distro. Older systems that are 
still using fc3 dont have this issue.

Any ideas? Suggestions?

On Dec 4, 2006, at 13:40, Jean Figarella wrote:
> I can't mount the cdrom when the user account has an nfs home  
> directory. It works fine on the gnome side with the same user. It  
> also works fine if I create a brand new local account, with no nfs  
> mounted home directory.
Can you not mount the CDROM at all or does it merely not auto-mount?   
I have the latter problem, which is a little annoying at times.   
Doing a "mount /media/cdrom" as root mounts the CDROM and puts it on  
the Desktop of the currently logged in Gnome user.  I never made the  
correlation with having an NFS mounted home directory.  In our  
environment, root can not access (read or write) the users' home  
directories.

Alfred

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 13:40 -0500, Jean Figarella wrote:
> I can't mount the cdrom when the user account has an nfs home
directory.
> It works fine on the gnome side with the same user. It also works fine 
> if I create a brand new local account, with no nfs mounted home directory.
> 
> This error is affecting all users on all computers; not just one 
> account. The one thing in common is that they all are using nfs mounted 
> home directories and that CentOS is the distro. Older systems that are 
> still using fc3 dont have this issue.
> 
> Any ideas? Suggestions?
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Hi Jean,

This is just a "me too".  I've just observed the same issue on
RHEL 4.
What's worse is that once the user has tried to mount the CD they can't
eject it without superuser intervention (from the GUI or the button on
the CD drive).

-Steve