[ale] Sharing CD-

Wed Aug 13 19:32:20 EDT 2003

On Wednesday 13 August 2003 04:19 pm, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> It seems that samba puts an "open file" lock on the CD drive. I have
> always just created mount loops for CD images for multiple disk installs
> over samba. I have not seen anything like a solution on this unless
> mtools gets support for iso9660 format disks.

Mandrake's supermount might help.  With Mandrake I never have to 
mount/umount my cd.  I just pop it in/out whenever I want to.  I haven't 
tried smb sharing it, however.  But I can cd to it then eject it.

Michael

> On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:13, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > Has anyone fouhd a majic trick to sharing CD-ROMs on Samba?  If
> > I have to install a 3 CD program and I use Linux as my file server
> > I have to exectue the following command to change CDs:
> >
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stop
> > eject
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start
> >
> >
> > Is there any other way?
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