If you have a Solaris box with multiple names, you might have trouble mounting CD’s if the primary name is different from the one you gave the machine at install time. This is because of the CRAZY way Solaris goes about auto-mounting its optical media.
Here is a 10,000 foot view of how Solaris automounts a CD:
The disk is inserted
vold checks and sees that there is a disk inserted
vold connects to inetd, which in turn, starts smserverd
smserverd mounts the disk and all is right with the world
All this depends, however, that:
1) Vold is running
# /etc/init.d/volmgt start
2) This line is not commented in /etc/inetd.conf
100155/1 tli rpc/ticotsord wait root /usr/lib/smedia/rpc.smserverd rpc.smserverd
And 3) The current hostname of the machine is listed in /etc/net/ticotsord/hosts.
This file should looks something like this:
——-SNIP——
#ident “@(#)hosts 1.2 92/07/14 SMI” /* SVr4.0 1.2 */
# RPC Hosts
micky micky
minny minny
——/SNIP——
Micky and minny, of course are the hostnames you have given the machine. You can pretty much just make it mirror the /etc/hosts file.
Once these three criteria are met, a machine with multiple names should be able to automount a CD with no problems.
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wow, finally got that one figured out… what a seriously suck specific thing. Glad to hear that is fixed, and good to know in the future.