share dvd drive with samba
 

Hello,

I want to share my dvd drive from my linux box so it can be seen from windows machines. I've put this in my smb.conf :
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[dvd]
comment = dvd drive on linux boxen
writable = No
locking = No
path = /mnt/cdrom2

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Windows can see the "dvd" share but they recognise it as a network (hard)drive/folder. Which means that I have to mount it first under linux and then mount it under windows.
Is there a way to make Win recognise it as a DVD drive so that I can do things as if it was a local drive (e.g. eject, play DVD etc.)?

Tnx,

Tom.

Not really but you could use "root preexec" and "root postexec" to mount/unmount/eject.