How to Share a CD-ROM on a LAN Server 3.0 System

Hi!

Through a lot of hair pulling, and help from a gentlemen in Austin (who found an old 1.3 related problem report on the subject), I have FINALLY got my CD-ROM drive setup so that it is sharable among my various requesters.

NOW, this may have been blatantly obvious to most people, but it wasn't to me, so here's the nitty-gritty details:

Several assumptions. First, I wanted to setup the environment such that the CD-ROM drive was available to various users, after they'd logged on (i.e. without them issuing NET USE), so everything is geared toward that structure. Also, all setup is done with the FS LAN Requester program (by someone with Admin privileges).

First, I defined an Alias (doing nothing unusual). I.E. Definitions > Aliases > Files, then highlight "New", and did Actions > Create. I made an alias name of CDROM, and Server Path of D:\ (which is the drive letter for my CD). I defaulted the rest of the screen.

OK, that was the easy part. After that, you'll find that any Admin level user can get at the drive, and all of its subdirectories, BUT, if a "normal" user tries it (or if you assign it to him at Logon), he can't get past the root directory.

SO!, here's the missing details. Now (back at the main menu), do Definitions > Access Control > Servers > Display Profiles by Server. Now click on the Server you're working with, and you should get a full ACL list. At that point, highlight "New", and do Actions > Create. On the profile panel, specify a Profile of D: (notice there's NO backslash), Resource type of FILE, and appropriate permissions (like XR), then Enter.

Once you've done that, if you're back to the main menu, do Definitions > Users, highlight a user and do Logon Details > File Assignments, you should now see CDROM as one of your choices, AND, if you assign it a letter, get out of LAN Requester, and LOGON with that userid, you should find that you have access to everything on that drive, AND, that you can change to a different CD-ROM, and still have access to everything.

OK! I think I got everything in there (sure hope so). Obviously, the same concept should work for any removable media. Good Luck!