Hi Michael, I am not quite sure if this is what you are referring to: If the CD drive is used on a Samba share, as I demonstrated, it cannot be ejected if the share is in use. When the user closes the share (but does not have to log out) you need to wait a short while (about 2-3 mins) before the eject button will allow the drive to open. Samba takes a while to release a share when it is no longer in use, as witnessed by running smbstatus from the console before and after a user closes a share. I have not used a zip drive in this way, but I assume the same applies. Regards Sasha ps This is a great way to make a network CD juke box out of your e-smith server using SCSI CD-ROMS (or even in combination with IDE drives) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Jung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sasha Malic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 27 February 2001 07:13 Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] CDROM share Hello Sasha, your tip was excellent, I had this in mind but didn't worked it out until now. The only problem for non-command line users is, that the CD an even my zip could be ejected by the button on the drive. I have to log out from the windows nt system or to unmount it on the console. I would prefer that every user can access the share to use the zip but the normal user woun't get back his medium :-) Michael Jung ----- Kassel University Michael Jung (FB16 IEE-RE) Wilhelmshoeher Allee 73 D-34121 Kassel Fon. +49 561 804-6201 /-6377 Fax. +49 89 1488-205245 PGP Public Key Fingerprint http://wwwkeys.pgp.net 1ACD B36E 6BB2 60C6 CD35 2917 5B5D 5938 63F2 3065 > -----Original Message----- > From: Sasha Malic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 9:27 AM > To: e-smith > Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] CDROM share > > > Can we get the following bit of code added to future versions of > the server > to simplify use of a server CDROM > (Now that the e-smith server is more like a 'file server' with the release > of 4.1 :-) > > I normally add a template fragment into > /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/smb.conf > called 80cdrom with the following contents: > > [CDROM] > comment = Server CDROM > path = /mnt/cdrom > read only = yes > browsable = yes > root preexec = /bin/mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom > root postexec /bin/umount /mnt/cdrom > > # /dev/hdd=second IDE slave, /hdc=second IDE master etc > > but it would be great to have this as a standard feature. > > I know the system needs to work out to which bus the drive is actually > connected, but I am sure this is trivial programming for you guys ! > > Regards > Sasha Malic > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > This list is archived > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
