samba share cd-drive (hardy)

**fredknex** · June 15th, 2008

How can i share my cd/dvd-rom drive over my samba network? The drive is on an Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy machine. I have already set up samba and successfully shared my external drive over the network, but do not know what directory to set the share as in samba.
When i insert a disk, it is mounted in /media/"discname" which i am able to share. However this is semi useless as it only works for discs of whatever name i set it to.

Is there any way to share whatever disk is in the drive automatically?

much thanks for any possible help

(smb.conf mentions editing fstab. the default examples given do not seem to work)

**kaleo86** · June 25th, 2008

As you know, in UNIX Systems, Hard Drives are mapped and used as a part of the file directory, such as /dev/cdrom mapped to /media/cdrom etc...

If you want to share a hard drive, you just need to share the directory where the drive is mapped (in the case before, /media/cdrom) ...

try editing the samba's config file as:

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf

then, chance the follow section as:

Code:

[public]
   comment = Public Stuff
   path = /dir where your drive is mapped
   public = yes
   writable = yes
   printable = no

I hope this can help you...

**kaleo86** · June 25th, 2008

See this:

http://oreilly.com/catalog/samba/cha...k/ch04_01.html

**fredknex** · June 25th, 2008

Thanks for the info, from what i've been reading my problem is most likely fstab, since i can share the cd drive manually but not automatically, if that makes sense

**dmizer** · June 25th, 2008

Originally Posted by kaleo86

As you know, in UNIX Systems, Hard Drives are mapped and used as a part of the file directory, such as /dev/cdrom mapped to /media/cdrom etc...

If you want to share a hard drive, you just need to share the directory where the drive is mapped (in the case before, /media/cdrom) ...

try editing the samba's config file as:

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf

then, chance the follow section as:

Code:

[public]
   comment = Public Stuff
   path = /dir where your drive is mapped
   public = yes
   writable = yes
   printable = no

I hope this can help you...

actually, since it's a dvd ROM, it should look like this:

Code:

[DVD-ROM Drive]
    path = /media/cdrom
    browseable = yes
    read only = yes
    guest ok = yes

usually the dvd is mounted at /media/cdrom and then a symbolic link is created so that you will see the dvd as a name on your desktop. if you have more than one cd/dvd drive, this could be /media/cdrom1