Advice on accessing CD changer disks via Samba

Stephen L Arnold
Wed, 07 Jul 1999 04:48:03 -0000

On 7 Jul 99, "Steve Snyder" <swsnyder@home.com> had questions
about
Advice on accessing CD changer disks via Samba:

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> 0. I'd prefer not to call the shares CDROM0, CDROM1, etc.  Is
> there any way to automatically make a volume label a share name?

You must be a C dude, huh?

I've got a couple NEC changer drives I've used with linux and
windoze, but I've never shared one with samba (I've got plenty of
spare 2x drives lying around if anyone wants one...).

The above drives don't work in linux the way they do in windoze;
you can forget the whole "multiple drive letters for one drive"
thing.  The windoze changer driver only works that way, whereas the
NEC driver lets you see it as one drive if you want.  Then you
switch slots with a little system tray widget.  This is exactly how
these drives work with linux.  It defaults to the first slot, then
you use the eject command (see man eject) to switch slots.  Eject
will not work if the drive is mounted, so your script will have to
do something like this:

umount /mnt/cdrom
eject -c 1
(pause while the mechanism grinds away)
mount /mnt/cdrom

to switch to the second slot.  Things should generally work better
if you have a SCSI drive as opposed to IDE, as the SCSI drives
implement a more consistent command set (or so says the xmcd
author).

Just my $.02 again, Steve

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