Mounting a remote CDROM on a PC.

[Ed Duffner]

Hi folks, I have a PC running Win2k with a CD-ROM (actually a DVD-ROM). I want to be able to mount this as a remote filesystem to a C110/9000 workstation running HP-UX 11.0.

Is this possible with some kind of entry in the /etc/fstab? or can I do this with something like samba?

Regards,
Ed.

[Arockia Jegan]

You can do it through samba. Install the samba server software on windows system. Install the samba client on HP workstation. Share the cdrom folder in win system. You will be able to access the CDROM folder from hp workstation.

[Sajid_1]

hi,

Yes you could do that with samba software. There are lot of threads in this forum about the same setup and configuration; do a search and you will be good to go.

Another same type of software is CIFS/9000, which is a priced product from HP and have more functions than samba. I never tried this on a workstation though.

hth

[harry d brown jr]

You can do it with samba client on the HP, and mount the CD on the W2K box.

Do you know how to get samba (cifs9000 in the HP world)?

live free or die
harry

[Arockia Jegan]

CIFS/9000 product is a free one. You can download from the following link,

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProducts.pl?group_type=search&group_name=CIFS%2F9000&search_free=1&search_trial=1&search_buy=1

[harry d brown jr]

For now cifs9000 is free:

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProducts.pl?group_type=search&group_name=CIFS&search_free=1&search_trial=1&search_buy=1

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harry

[Sajid_1]

hi,

Thanks for pointing out that it's free now. this is the home page of CIFS:
http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/operating/hpuxcifs9000/

thanks,

[Ed Duffner]

Thanks everyone for your quick responses.

I'll try to get around to looking at the setups this week.

Regards,
Ed.