[ale] Sharing CD-

Thu Aug 14 16:39:24 EDT 2003

On Wednesday 13 August 2003 07:47 pm, 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.

But that's the point.  With supermount it is never busy.  If you mount your 
CD, then cd to its mount point, you can't eject it cause it's busy.  But 
with supermount you can.  It's like magic!

Michael

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