From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 19 06:04:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA12234 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 06:04:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (ki1.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE [160.45.24.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA12211 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 06:04:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.1.28.1) from mail.hanse.de (193.174.9.9) with smtp id ; Wed, 19 Jun 96 14:58 MEST Received: from wavehh.UUCP by mail.hanse.de with UUCP for michaelv@HeadCandy.com id ; Wed, 19 Jun 96 14:58 MET DST Received: by wavehh.hanse.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16633; Wed, 19 Jun 96 14:38:07 +0200 From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Message-Id: <9606191238.AA16633@wavehh.hanse.de> Subject: Re: (SMB/Netware/NFS for DOS clients) (was BSD/OS ...) To: michaelv@HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 14:38:06 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606181602.JAA16198@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> from "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" at Jun 18, 96 09:02:11 am Reply-To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > >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 http://www.bik-gmbh.de/~cracauer Fax +49 40 522 85 36