[plug] cdrom mounting by itself while online

[Christian]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 06:14:39PM +0800, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Ari Finander wrote:
> > Is it normal for a cdrom to mount by itself while you're online?
> 
> I can't think of anything about being online that should make your cdrom
> mount itself. If you have an automounter, then attempting to read a
> particular file or directory might do it. Perhaps a program or daemon on
> your system was trying to read from your cdrom?
> The second most likely answer, however, is outside influence across the
> net. (as you probably guessed) The most likely answer remains that you
> mounted it and forgot you did it. :) Or that a program you ran yourself
> needed it and mounted it. (did you install packages during that time, and
> have a package archive on a cdrom registered on your system?)

Samba can be configured to automatically mount a CDROM when someone
tries to access that share.  Maybe you have Samba configured to share
your CDROM and someone decided to take you up on it... Seems like a
pretty stupid default Samba configuration to me but anything's possible.
Still, my guess is that you just mounted it and forgot or you unmounted
it and it didn't actually happen or some other boring reason like that.