DVDRom is not detected

[fromaron]

I am not very familiar with Fedora 14 and linux in general but managed to setup and configure my Amahi server using all the online help I could find.
The only problem I cannot solve is my DVD Rom mounting.
I would like to include the drive in to my shares but it seems like linux doesn't detect it at all . It is not listed in dev. I have created a media\cdrom folder and added it to shares but I realise without mounting the physical drive I will have no hope.
I also need to add that the drive eject button doesn't do anything as well. Please note I install Fedora using that particular drive.
Please help with the problem.

[bigfoot65]

Hello,

If your DVD drive is not showing, recommend you check out Fedora help. This is an OS issue and sounds like possibly a driver problem.

[fromaron]

Thanks bigfoot for your reply.
I can't believe I made the mistake by not checking the drive cables before posting .
Fedora mounts it automatically when a disk is inserted. Is it possible to make the actual drive to apear in shares so I can read (and hopefully write) the disk from Windows 7 PCs? I realise I can share the mounted disk from Linux PC but I am after sharing the drive (the same share name - DVDROM) which will give remote access to any disk I will insert.

[bigfoot65]

I don't think it will work as when you insert a DVD, it mounts it based on the DVD contents. For example, it would mount Windows as /media/Windows.