[ale] Sharing CD-

[Drag0n]

One solution i am working on is a virtual cd-rom jukebox. It uses the
loopback interface to mount iso's of the cd's and share them out. I saw
this in one of the Linux Journal editions (April 2002 edition).
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5639

This might help with how to do it.

Drag0n
dragon at atlantacon.org
 

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 19:47, Geoffrey wrote:
> Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> smb throws another twist into the picture.  Much like if you were to nfs 
> share your cd.  You can't umount/eject it because it's busy.

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