[ale] Sharing CD-

[Geoffrey]

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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