Removable Media Features and Benefits

The Solaris release gives users and software developers a standard interface for dealing with removable media. Removable media services provide the following benefits:

• Automatically mounts removable media. For a comparison of manual and automatic mounting, see the following section.

• Enables you to access removable media without having to become superuser.

• Allows you to give other systems on the network automatic access to any removable media on your local system. For more information, see Chapter 3, Accessing Removable Media (Tasks).