Devices, like CD-ROM drives, have to be mounted on the system before they are available for use This can be done manually (see mount), but Red Hat Linux generally automounts devices now
An NFS utility that lets you share directories with other systems as if the directory resided on your own disk When automount is turned on, you can drag a directory icon from the Shared Resources area of another system's System Manager window onto your own desktop
A graphical utility that provides an iconical tree structure to simplify the user's task of locating and using a server, file system, or volume