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Mount & share cd drive

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by mjdme

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Rather than taking up room on a server drive, I would like to access my cd rom drive and play tune on other workstations. I am running MDK 9.1, and would like to mount this cdrom drive, but mount and share it as a network drive on a windows xp box.Is that possible? Or is there another way to acheive this?

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by cpfeiffe

Once you mount the cd it is treated as another FS to Unix. You can then share it with samba. This will convert the data so it is readable via Windows. If you don't know samba it would take too long to explain here so I suggest looking at www.samba.org. Good luck.

by mjdme

I should have been more specific. I can see the cdrom drive if there is a data disk in it, but if I insert a music cd I do not get the same thing.

by sbkwi

You can't access audio cds from windows via a network drive because there is no file system on audio cds. For playing audio you need low level hardware access to the cdrom drive. I do not now if there is any software that can fake a cdrom drive on awindows box to access a remote drive on a linux machine. As a workaround, you could rip the current audio cd to a directory on a linux drive using e.g. CDDA2WAV and mount this directory from your windows computer.

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