[expert] changing mount point

2001-02-19 Thread Bruce Endries
I am beating my head against a brick wall here... I have a machine with 3 CD-ROM drives (/mnt/cdrom, /mnt/cdrom2, /mnt/cdrom3 is the way the Mandrake install set them up). I want to share all three as one Samba share. I am trying to change the mount points to /mnt/cd/cda, /mnt/cd/cdb, and /mnt

[expert] changing mount point

2001-02-20 Thread Bruce Endries
To those who replied to my question about changing the mount point of CD-ROMs, thank you very much for taking the time. I hadn't thought of creating a softlink. It worked like a charm. Now I am sharing all 3 CD-ROM drives as one drive letter for the Windows machines on the network. Bruce End

Re: [expert] changing mount point

2001-02-19 Thread Ron Heron
Actually, you don't even have to go through all that. What you can do is the following: #ln -s /mnt/cdrom /desiredmountpointname/cda #ln -s /mnt/cdrom2 /desiredmountpointname/cdb #ln -s /mnt/cdrom3 /desiredmountpointname/cdc Then, in your smb.conf, just add /desiredmountpointname as a non-witab

Re: [expert] changing mount point

2001-02-19 Thread bascule
if the problem is changing the mount points then edit /etc/fstab and alter the references to /mnt/cdrom etc. accordingly; or else run linuxconf and choose (from memory-in win at mo.) filesystem>access local files> or similar and make alterations to mount points there, make sure the drives aren't m