Sharing CD-ROM over Samba on Fedora 8

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Daniel Tweedy wrote:
> Thank you for the reply but it didn't work, the problem I think I am 
> having is one of it not mounting and unmounting the cdrom.
> 
> Fedora 8 mounts the cdroms in the /media folder however a folder with 
> the name of the cdrom shows up there, i.e. say for example I had a cdrom 
> with the name "FedoraList" I would have /media/FedoraList in that folder 
> which makes it difficult to share the cdrom drive itself.
> 
> Also would it be possible for someone to explain this to me as I didn't 
> understand it :-
> 
> # If you want to run scripts (preexec/root prexec/print command/...) please
> # put them into the /var/lib/samba/scripts directory so that smbd will be
> # allowed to run them.
> # Make sure you COPY them and not MOVE them so that the right SELinux 
> context
> # is applied, to check all is ok use restorecon -R -v 
> /var/lib/samba/scripts
> 
> I dont understand where to get the scripts from to put them in that folder.
> 
> I am using ;-
> 
> root preexec = /sbin/mount /media/cdrom
> root postexec = /sbin/umount /media/cdrom
> 
> [homes]
>        comment = Home Directories
>        browseable = no
>        writable = yes
> 
> [cdrom]
>        comment = Linux CD-ROM
>        path = /media/cdrom
>        read only = yes
>        locking = no
>        writable = no
> 
> The home directories work fine with security = user, however they 
> disappear leaving on the cdrom folder showing with security = share, the 
> cdrom folder however still doesn't share the contents of the cdrom though.
> 
> I've got selinux disabled, and also this is my output from df -k.
> 
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>                     114016724  83634920  24496672  78% /
> /dev/sda1               194442     19022    165381  11% /boot
> tmpfs                   509304         0    509304   0% /dev/shm
> 
> Nicolae Ghimbovschi wrote:
>> Try to change
>>
>> security = user
>> to
>> security = share
>>
>> It might help you.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Daniel Tweedy 
>> <daniel.tweedy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  
>>> I was just wondering if any of you have any experience of sharing a 
>>> cd-rom
>>> over samba, i'm not having very much luck in getting it working you see,
>>> have googled and search a lot and I think I am very close to getting it
>>> working, but am kinda stuck as to what else I could do from where I 
>>> am, so I
>>> am really looking for a few pointers/tips/ideas.
>>>
>>> [cdrom]
>>> comment = CD-ROM
>>> path = /cdrom
>>> writable = no
>>> locking = no
>>> public = yes
>>> read only = yes
>>> valid users = %S
>>>
>>> This is what i'm using at the moment and it shows up on the windows 
>>> pc but
>>> it asks for a password when I try to connect, but none of the users 
>>> set up
>>> on the box or in the smbpasswd file work and root doesn't work 
>>> either, it
>>> just keeps poping up asking for the password again no matter what I try.
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>   
> 
Why don't you just copy the contents of the cd to a folder and share the 
folder with samba? why do you want to share the cdrom device( i am not 
sure you can anyway)?
As you pointed out the path to the cd is /media/? so why are you trying 
to share /media/cdrom(is the cd named cdrom?)?
Either your making things to complicated or I don't understand what you 
are doing. Please explain in one syllable terms if possible.

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