Advanced Server Overview and Installation

Administration guidelines Sharing a CD-ROM drive

Product Manual U7613-J-Z815-6-76

6.2 Sharing a CD-ROM drive

If your UNIX system has a CD-ROM drive, you can also share it for workstations. To do this,

carry out the following steps:

Ê Using the mount command, incorporate the CD-ROM drive in the UNIX file system, for

example, use the commands:

mkdir /cdrom

chmod 777 /cdrom

mount -F hs -o dos /dev/ios0/sdisk005s0 /cdrom

● The devicename for the CD-ROM drive varies depending on the UNIX system.

● Most of the CD-ROMs have the high sierra file system type for which you enter

the required driver on RM systems using the parameter

-F hs.

● In the example a directory (/cdrom) has been generated for slice 0 only. Create

another directory for each other slice as required and incorporate it into the

UNIX file system using the mount command.

● Advanced Server for UNIX generally only processes filenames which do not

contain any uppercase letters. The filenames are converted to lowercase letters

using the -o dos parameter. Check whether this parameter is set if errors occur.

You could also configure Advanced Server for UNIX is such a way that both

uppercase and lowercase usage is possible. To enable this, set the following

parameter in the registry: MixedCaseSupport

● Share the CD-ROM drive using the net share cdrom=c:/cdrom command.

Users now have read access to the CD-ROM drive from their workstations using the

net use i: \\server1\cdrom command, for example.

You cannot remove the CD-ROM from the drive before you have removed the

CD-ROM drive from the UNIX file system with the umount command!