On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:03:55PM -0400, Phil Beder wrote: > I'm trying to set up my first Debian server in a mixed > platform environment(macs & win). Its for a school, and > we would like to put reference material; ie encyclopedia, > dictionary, and the like on the server. Many of these > programs want to be read from CD-ROMs. I know the Windows > platform has a program that can do this (I believe its > called paragon) How can this be done on the Linux > platform?
You will probably want to use samba to do the sharing. assume /dev/cdrom is 'ln -s' to your real cdrom device (? /dev/hdc ?) and a mount point of /cdrom exists (mkdir /cdrom && chown you.you /cdrom) For each cd-rom of data: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom mkisofs -J -R /cdrom/ -o /path/to/lots/of/space/name.iso once the .iso's are made mount them thus: mkdir /diskname chmod 755 /diskname mount -o loop /path/to/lots/of/space/name.iso /diskname (this does not use any disk space) configure samba to share /diskname with a meaningful name (you will probably need to be root or use sudo for this) look at swat for managing samba shares, if you are not really too concerned about security; makes life simple if your samba needs are simple. (debian; apt-get swat; docs in /usr/doc/swat) otherwise edit /etc/samba/smb.conf by hand and kickstart samba to reread changes. hope this helps; enjoy! (have a lot of fun!) aloha. dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
