[Fwd: RE: [seul-edu] Samba CD server...]

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

owner-seul-edu@seul.org wrote:

> From: "Mark Orenstein" <morenstein@alum.mit.edu>
> To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
> Subject: RE: [seul-edu] Samba CD server...
> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:49:56 -0400
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> We've been using Samba with imaged CD's onto a hard drive for over a year.
> It works great.  Note that you can copy a CD image using ISO 9660 to a
> single file on the hard drive (native linux).  You can them mount (I think)
> the ISO image and share it using SAMBA. I'm not at school over the summer
> and can't quite remember how to do it.  Given the pricing of IDE drives,
> it's a lot cheaper and a lot faster than a CD tower.
>
> Below is something that I had stored from seul-edu earlier this year.
>
> Mark Orenstein
> East Granby, CT School System
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-seul-edu@seul.org [mailto:owner-seul-edu@seul.org]On Behalf Of
> Dan Yonker
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 6:57 AM
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Re: [seul-edu] CD Server
>
> My CD server is working well.  Here is the information.
> To create the iso images use the
>
> dd if=/dev/cddevice of=filename.iso
>
> this will create a file with the name of "filename.iso" in your currenet
> directory from your cd-rom. (my if= line was "if=/dev/cdrom".  To help make
> things more clear "if" = read (input) file and "of" = write "output" flie.
> Now you have an iso image of your cd.
>
> Next Linux needs to mount this.  I used Webmin first to try this out but a
> faster way is just to edit your /etc/fstab file.
> I have the following line(s) at the end of mine.
>
> /home/iso/cdimage1.iso    /home/cdrom/cdimage1    iso9660
> ro,loop,mode=444    0    0
> /home/iso/cdimage2.iso    /home/cdrom/cdimage2    iso9660
> ro,loop,mode=444    0    0
> etc......
>
> I created my iso images in the directory /home/iso/ and a the directory that
> the cd appears in is /home/cdrom/cdimagex.
>
> >From that point I used SAMBA to create a share to the iso image directroy.
> We have a few cds that we have limited liscenses for therefore I created
> seperate shares for those two cds because SAMBA allows the use limiting for
> shares.
>
> I have not put this into full production, however I have installed a few
> programs onto a machine a they work wonderfully.
>
> Dan

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