since the share is for windoze (obviously), clients I suppose it would be
just as easy to create a folder, then create a samba share to that folder and
copy the CD contents to the folder/share name. Simplicity is nice.
On Monday 26 May 2003 12:09 am, yo
u wrote:
> Okay, my first reply wasn't very helpful.
>
> This is probably not as polished as what you'd like,
> but at least it is something, as opposed to nothing. :)
>
> # mount -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop0 ~/path/to/mycd.iso /mnt/cdrom
>
> You need loopback support in your kernel, but that's pretty common,
> I think. You also need might need to be root, depends on how mount is
> configured on your system, I think.
>
> That command will make available the ~/path/to/mycd.iso
> as /mnt/cdrom, just like when you mount files in /dev/.
>
> I'm also not sure if the mounted iso image is writable,
> but the above is useful for testing an iso image before burning it
> to a CD.
>
> Perhaps someone else knows a good front-end to mounting files on
> the loopback device?
>
> It should be trivial to implement a virtual cd rom this way.
> Surely, someone has to have already done it, no?
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