Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 14:38:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) To: michaelv@HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com) Cc: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (SMB/Netware/NFS for DOS clients) (was BSD/OS ...) Message-ID: <9606191238.AA16633@wavehh.hanse.de> In-Reply-To: <199606181602.JAA16198@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> from "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" at Jun 18, 96 09:02:11 am
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> > > >Well, one thing I can't do with samba it burning CD's. Our burners are > >all connected to Win95 machines (:-p )and I can burn from a NT-Server's > >drive, but not from a samba server. > > I've always heard that you need _very_ consistent interrupt-free data > for burning CD's. I don't think you should *ever* try to burn from a > remotely mounted drive no matter how fast the server. From what I > understand, you should always copy the data to a local drive and burn > from that. Certainly. However, people just ignore the policy that 650 local MB should stay availiable. I'm tiered of fighting and use a network drive. The company that would have to enforce this policy pays for wasted CD media instead. It would be better If I could use a samba drive and not have to copy the stuff to the NT server, that was my point. Time for a BSD based burning station over here... -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de> http://www.bik-gmbh.de/~cracauer Fax +49 40 522 85 36
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