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In article <120@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> klong@pauling.bcm.tmc.edu (Kevin Long) writes:
>In article <43682@improper.coherent.com> dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) writes:
>>In article <1990Jan2.151626.7868@aucs.uucp> paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele) writes:
>>> The boss wants to a CD-ROM service on our Appletalk network...
>
>>Attach a CD-ROM player to one Mac ...
>>Install copies of TOPS...
>>Configure the "server" Mac so that the CD-ROM is mounted at boot time,
>>and is then published as a read-only volume by TOPS.
>
>I think this would be very difficult to do. Shutting down or restarting a mac 
>ejects the disk from the Apple CD SC player. On startup, since TOPS gets installed 
>and looks for its disks before the Finder looks to see what's in the CD drive,
>then even if you were there to push the CD back into the drive immediately,
>TOPS can't auto-publish a CD volume automatically on startup.  I tried this
>once, and I recall this being the outcome.  Too bad, huh?

Just this afternoon, I was considering putting a CD ROM drive on our 
AppleShare server and I was wondering what the possible concerns
might be.  I guess now I've gotten an earful!

I do have a possible solution to offer, though, for the problem of
not being able to set up the server software to mount the CD drive
on startup.  This of course is only relevant for TOPS (probably PSN
too); AppleShare mounts everything before running.

A free init was posted a year or so ago called "ForceMount."  Its
function was to force the mounting of all accessible volumes when
the init was run.  It could be named to run before any server software
or other inits that required a volume to be up.

Unfortunately I don't seem to have a copy still sitting around, but
it should be available at one or another of the archive sites or
anonymous ftp sites.

Since I am still considering adding a CD ROM drive to our AppleShare
server, I'd appreciate hearing from other people who've done so, 
preferably by e-mail, on how practical it is.  Should we just copy
the relevant material from the CD to a large hard drive?


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