Re: [seul-edu] Samba CD server...

[nick@corbettschool.org]

On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 07:21:19AM -0400, Ryan Booz wrote:
> Dan Yonker wrote: (I took cut and past privilege)
> 
> > SAMBA is being used to...serve iso images of various cd-roms using the loop
> > device.
> 
> Tried this yesterday at school and made the CD copies just fine.  Set up a share
> with SAMBA and logged on to a client.  It saw the information just fine and the
> program installed very quickly.  However, when I then tried to run the program, it
> kept asking me to put the CD in the drive.  It was pointing to the mapped drive on
> the server, so it was looking in the right place.  I had shared this same CD last
> year from a Win95 computer in the lab, just had all the computers map to it.
> 
> What I'm wondering is if I am dealing with locking or share modes problem?  Any
> quick thoughts?
  It might be getting picky about the volume label on the share.  Try
setting volume=whatever for the share in your smb.conf.  That's I'll I saw
in the smb.conf man page.
  - Nick Lopez
    nick@corbettschool.org