[ale] Sharing CD-

[James P. Kinney III]

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.

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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