[Shu-cdromlan] Re: Metering software

[Martin Sapsed]

yangs wrote:
>
> Hi, everyone:
>
> Thank you all for the responses. I will take all your recommendations and
> report to the list my findings. I run a Novell server and Zenworks has some
> metering function. I wonder if anyone ever looked into it. If someone is
> running a Solaris box to server large number of CDs, I would love to know how
> it works.

If you use Samba on your Solaris box to provide access to the contents of
the CDs, there is an option in Samba to restrict the number of people who
can connect to the share at any one time. There aren't any fancy stats or
anything though unless you parse the logs in some way.

Cheers,

Martin

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