Topic: CD_ROM Server

[Graham]

Hi !

I was wondering if anyone had successfully set up a CDROM
SERVER on their e-Smith box ?

I think this would be a pretty cool feature to add to the already
impressive list of functions e-SMith provides.

Even with a modest motherboard you could have 1 HDD and
3 CDROMS !

I am no programmer and only really tinker with Linux / Smith
but think its a grear distro for it purpose. It does much more
than SMoothWall.

I also tried some other micro diz like Coyote which was fun too.

Ok then I have a question. I have some office users who want
to map a network drive as //server/iris/ but in e-Smith you get
//server/ibayname/files/ I cant seem to get round this ?

Thanks !

[Paul]

Hi Graham,

Graham wrote:
> [...]
>
> Ok then I have a question. I have some office users who want
> to map a network drive as //server/iris/ but in e-Smith you get
> //server/ibayname/files/ I cant seem to get round this ?

In order to do this the i-bay must be used for file sharing or user ftp only (it cannot also be used for web or anonymous ftp).  So in order to map to //server/iris/, it's as simple as ensuring that public access to the i-bay iris is set to none.

http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/4.1/ibaydirs.html


Paul

[Monte Milanuk]

Graham wrote:
>
> Hi !
>
> I was wondering if anyone had successfully set up a CDROM
> SERVER on their e-Smith box ?
>
> I think this would be a pretty cool feature to add to the
> already
> impressive list of functions e-SMith provides.
>
> Even with a modest motherboard you could have 1 HDD and
> 3 CDROMS !
>

I haven't tried it w/ an e-Smith server, but I have done it w/ Debian.  Go to the Linux Documentation Project, and there is a HOWTO on making a CDROM server.  What you do, is rip an iso image of the CD's you wish to 'serve' up, and then mount them via a loop back filesystem.  The default Linux kernel allows up to 8 devices mounted via loopback, IIRC.  But supposedly you can change that number to allow even more.  So, using some thing like that combined w/ software RAID to speed up access, could put most physical cdrom servers to shame, I'd guess

Monte