My understanding of samba is limmited, but this is how I have heard it to
be done:
let us say that your windows box is called brazil
1) Share your cdrom on the windows box (under properties of the drive)
shared name: cdrom
2) Using smbmount: smbmount //brazil/cdrom /some/mount/point
That is the general idea anyway!
note: smbmount is not part of the official "Samba" package, but rather it
belongs to the SMBFS package (different developers). But, the standard
samba distribution does include smbmount
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Alexandre Souza wrote:
>
> I have a simple doubt, but I think its good to be here.
>
> I have 3 machines in my home. one running windows and two running Linux. I
> don't have a CD-ROM on these machines, because of the SCSI port. It's very
> hard to find a SCSI cd in Brazil (at least at reasonable prices) and these
> machines does not have the IDE interface (neither ways to add one). The
> only CD-ROM SCSI I have is my old'good CDR928 CD Recorder. Sometimes when
> I'm in a good mood, I open the windows machine, take the cd-rom out and put
> in the Linux machine to transfer some data. They are connected in a tcp/ip
> network. If the CD were in the Linux boxes, I'd share it between them using
> NFS (I never used it, here it is a good opportunity to learn). But the CD
> is in the Windows machine. Can I share it using NFS? Is there a NFS driver
> for windows (I haven't looked at it, I'm just puting all the hipoteses
> here)? If I were using samba (SMB), would it work OK? I could mount a
> remote filesystem using samba?
>
> Greetings, Alexandre
>
