3. Daemon

Download the daemon zipnetd to your host with the attached zip-drive into your prefered directory (I suggest /usr/local/sbin/). The config file is common to be in /etc/.
You have to comment the line beginning with die in the config file and change the rest to meet your demands.
TAKE CARE AT THE LINE BEGINNING WITH $FORMAT_DEV - A WRONG VALUE COULD FORMAT YOUR HARDDISK!

The example configuration should be self-explained:

## port to listen for incomming connections
#$LISTEN = 777;


## output lines separator (used on tcp port only)
#$OLS = "$\backslash$r$\backslash$n";


## to find recognize if the drive is mounted, we look at the /etc/mtab for
## a line containing this string
$MTAB_ENTRY = " /zip ";


## several commands to mount the zip-drive (there are maybe different
## filesystems and/or partition numbers
MOUNT_CMDS = ('mount /dev/sda4 /zip -t vfat -o umask=0,nosuid,noexec',
'mount /dev/sda1 /zip -t vfat -o umask=0,nosuid,noexec',
'mount /dev/sda4 /zip -t ext2 -o umask=0,nosuid,noexec',
'mount /dev/sda4 /zip -t minix -o umask=0,nosuid,noexec');


## how to unmount a mounted media
$UMOUNT_CMD = "umount $MTAB_ENTRY";


## how to eject a umounted media
$EJECT_CMD = "ziptool -e /dev/sda";


## how get a status of the media
$STATUS_CMD = "ziptool -s /dev/sda";


## which device should be passed to mkfs.*
$FORMAT_DEV = '/dev/sda4';

Finally you should make zipnetd started and stopped automaticly by adding a runlevel script to /etc/init.d/ and some symlinks to some runlevel directories - this depends on your linux distribution, maybe you should take a look at whose documentation.