Subject: Re: access to unix devices
From: Juergen Christoffel (jc@aeppel.gmd.de)
Date: Thu Jun 26 1997 - 08:54:38 EDT
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 13:38:03 +0200
From: Mario Klebsch DG1AM <mkl@charlie.rob.cs.tu-bs.de>
However to access a CDROM, it has to be monted on the UNIX
machine. This probably can be done with ISO CDROMs and with MS-DOS
CDROMs, but probably not with Mac CDROMs.
It definitely can be done. Apple's own AIX based servers can and SGI's
too can mount Macintosh format CD-ROMs and if you can install netatalk
there, you have a CD-ROM server. And of course Linux can do it: see
Paul Hargrove's hfs_fs; http://www-sccm.Stanford.EDU/~hargrove/HFS/
for details.
I'm running a Linux based Appleshare server here at GMD and thanks to
netatalk and hfs_fs it happily serves a dozen Macintosh CD-ROMs to its
clients.
--jc
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