Yes, it's possible, if you use Exceed's NFS server. On each windows
station, export the floppy and CD.
When the user connects to the Linux machine, it exports their IP address
in the DISPLAY environment variable.
Just make a small script that takes their IP address and put it in each
/home/user/Desktop/Startup directory
REMOTEIP=`export|grep DISPLAY|cut -f2 -d\"|cut -f1 -d:`
mount $REMOTEIP:/floppy /home/user/Desktop/floppy
mount $REMOTEIP:/cdrom /home/user/Desktop/cdrom
Or you could create kdelinks to scripts that mount/unmount the devices.
Jean-Michel Dault
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On Thu, 20 May 1999, Nicolas Le Gaillart wrote:
> Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 16:41:39 +0100
> From: Nicolas Le Gaillart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: [expert] local floppy & CD
>
> both floppy and cdrom are mounted at startup.
> but Exceed don't operate on the system itself, It's just an interface
> between windoz and Linux. So the thing to change must be within Linux...
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sam [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 2:14 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [expert] local floppy & CD
> >
> > Do you mount /dev/floppy /floppy ?
> > The software changes the /dev/floppy device?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Nicolas Le Gaillart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 4:29 AM
> > Subject: [expert] local floppy & CD
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm using a network of PCs under NT, which use also Linux Mandrake
> > 5.3
> > > via a server under this environment and a software called Exceed 5.
> > > When I mount the floppy, or the CD-ROM reader, this mount the
> > floppy/CD
> > > of the server (no problem so far..)
> > > But I'd want each user of the network to access their own floppy or
> > CD
> > > (that is, their LOCAL device, and not the device of the server)
> > > I'm not sure it's possible, but just in case I ask...
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
>
