Sharing CD-ROM over Samba on Fedora 8

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

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
> 
You may want to look at automount. You can set it up so that when 
you try to access /mnt/cdrom it auto-mounts the CD for you.

I have used it in the past to mount CD-ROM images, but it can mount 
a real CD as well. (Loop mounting 20 or more CD images at one time 
does not work so well...)

Mikkel
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