[Shu-cdromlan] Re: Wanted: advice on selecting CD-ROM networking software

[Jeff Beaird]

I'm a little late with this response, but hopefully not too late.

For the slightly adventurous, I replaced our towers of cd-towers and a
cd jukebox with a linux box running samba.  We've been running under
this regime for three years now and have had no problems.  To top it
off, it was free.  Or, mostly free--we paid for the disk drives that
cache the cd's, and we're using WinBatch to ease the process of mapping
drives on the client end.  The WinBatch bit is required only because
it's for use in our public area, and we wanted to hide some of the
details of drive-mapping.  Adding a new cd is as easy as copying the
contents of the cd to the network share, and we're off and running.

If anybody would like more information on our setup or like assistance
doing the same, please feel free to contact me.
--
Jeff Beaird
Buswell Memorial Library
Wheaton College
Wheaton, IL  60187


Charles Emerson wrote:
>
> Hi, we at Emerson College Library (in Boston) have been networking our CD-ROMs using a Logicraft CD-ROM tower and DiscPort Executive software by Microtest, both of which are well past their prime.
>
> We're now planning to purchase software that will copy CDs to a new server's (running Windows 2000 Advanced Server) hard disk, which has only one CD-ROM drive (as opposed to our tower). So far we're down to products such as Todd Enterprises' Discport Executive XP Optical Manager (expensive) and ZTekWare Computing's Original CD Emulator. Does anyone have experience with either of these products or similar ones? Can anyone recommend some software they're using successfully?
>
> A thousand thanks! --Emerson College Library
>
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