[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>, <ryanbooz@alumni.psu.edu>
> Subject: RE: [seul-edu] Samba CD server...
> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:35:39 -0400
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> Check the VOLSER info.  Again, I'm not at school, but I think SAMBA defaults
> to use the share name as the volser.  I think there is also a way to specify
> the volser within SAMBA.  This may help.
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-seul-edu@seul.org [mailto:owner-seul-edu@seul.org]On Behalf
> Of Ryan Booz
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 7:21 AM
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Samba CD server...
>
> 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?

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