--- Shane Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Basically, the application freezes in patches, and > eventually, app > hangs. With 8 users accessing 2 identical shares > (I duplicated the iso, > mount both of them, and share both), at least 2 of > them are likely to > have hung within 5 minutes.
I'm not sure this would even work well in Windows. CDs make poor multi-user drives. As I understand it, they work well in single-user applications where the head doesn't have to move around much. I recall someone telling me I'd burn out a CD drive in no time if I shared it on an FTP server, and Samba would be no different. Instead, Linux (and probably other *nixes) gives you the option to copy the contents of a CD to an iso and then mount that iso into a loopback device just like any other files in your system. In a nutshell, this is how it's done: Make sure your kernel has loop support: depmod -a modprobe -l | grep loop (Nothing? Try this: grep loop /proc/filesystems. If it's there, it's built into the kernel. If not, compile it in or as a module.) mkdir /samba/share/cdrom1 (or something like that) (insert CD) mount /mnt/cdrom cd /mnt/cdrom mkisofs -o /place/where/you/store/iso/files/cdrom1.iso . (man mkisofs or read the CD-writing HOWTO for details or other flags you might need) vi /etc/fstab (add a line like this:) /place/where/you/store/iso/files/cdrom1.iso /samba/share/cdrom1 iso9660 loop=/dev/loop1 (all on one line) mount /samba/share/cdrom1 Do the same for your other CDs, except you're using /samba/share/cdrom2 and /dev/loop2, and so on. Finally, write shares in /etc/samba/smb.conf: [cdrom1] path=/samba/share/cdrom1 [cdrom2] path=/samba/share/cdrom2 ... You can get fancy with fstab mount options like gid=sambausers and put everyone in this group for read-only. umask=227 will give r-xr-x--- perms to every file and directory for execution. The caveats are iso files (like CDs) are read-only. This may be to your benefit, as the user can't corrupt, delete, overwrite, modify, trojanize, etc. your programs. Also this takes up 650MB per image (naturally) but with hard drives costing about $1/GB this is hardly a problem. And you can store wayy more images in a server with a 100GB drive than with a bunch o' CD drives. Lastly, the loop module takes an argument to allow more than 8 loopback devices. modinfo loop or Google for details. You'll also need corresponding devices added for your extra loopback devices in /dev (/dev/loopXX), like so: mknod /dev/loop46 b 7 46 mknod /dev/loop47 b 7 47 mknod /dev/loop48 b 7 48 ... Hope this helps, /dev/idal __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba