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From: ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Appletalk CD-ROM access
Summary: Must take down AppleShare server to switch CDs
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Date: 4 Jan 90 16:04:43 GMT
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In article <5877@ncar.ucar.edu> hpoppe@bierstadt.UCAR.EDU (Herb Poppe) writes:
> In article <6004@internal.Apple.COM> blob@apple.com (Brian Bechtel) writes:
> >AppleShare 2.0.1 supports CD-ROM and other read-only media.
>
>Can the CD's be ejected and mounted without taking the server down?

No.  That's one of the downsides of putting a CD drive on an AppleShare
server.  Additionally, network users won't be able to hear sound from any
CD-ROMs that produce it (including the "Explorer Disc" that comes with
the AppleCD SC drive).

Using CDs on a server requires some setup ahead of time.  You must boot
the server from the Server Administration floppy, mount a CD in the drive,
and then run AppleShare Admin so that the server can "prepare" that
particular CD for use as a server volume.  This process has to be repeated
for every CD that you have.

Fortunately, you can do that for every CD that you have all in one session.
AppleShare will remember the privileges that it created for each CD, even
if it isn't mounted in the drive at the moment.  (AppleShare Admin will
present a message like "Save access privileges for (CD name) even though
this volume isn't being used right now?")

We have a Novell server with a CD drive on our PC network here.  On Novell,
you can switch disks anytime without taking the server down.  It apparently
just thinks of the CD drive as any other disk drive, allowing shared access
to whatever CD is in it at the moment.  I'd like to see that kind of
functionality in AppleShare.

-John
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