Hello, I have recently installed Samba on my Sun Fire V-440 Solaris 8 Unix server and it works fine to map drives from my PC (late model running Windows XP Professional)(on a large LAN) to the shares on the Unix server. However, what I have a need for is to be able to map the other direction. Basically, need to sit at my PC at my desk, far from the server, load a CD into the CD-ROM drive of the PC and have it work as if the CD-ROM drive is actually a device on the Unix server. Using Hummingbird Exceed as my X-Term solution to the Unix server. Does this work with Samba? Has anyone ever found this solution or do you have any thoughts as to why it might not be a good idea to implement? Thanks, Jeff Grant Unix Sys Admin EDS Herndon, VA
>Basically, need to sit at my PC at my desk, far from the server, load a CD >into the CD-ROM drive of the PC and have it work as if the CD-ROM drive is >actually a device on the Unix server. Using Hummingbird Exceed as my X-Term > >There are various methods you could do this from a Linux box, as the tools are in the kernel, and there's also a smbmount listed in the configure for samba, but again for linux only. So the short answer would appear to be not using samba on solaris. Perhaps MS's SFU package would help you out some? I think you could use that to share your cd-rom over nfs, or MS's implementation of nfs. -- -- Paul Gienger Office: 701-281-1884 Applied Engineering Inc. Systems Architect Fax: 701-281-1322 URL: www.ae-solutions.com mailto: pgienger@ae-solutions.com