On 6 Dec 96 07:27am, Michael Haunzwickl wrote to All:
 MH> Hi there, ...
 MH>
 MH> I want to share some CD's with my clients in the LAN. I want to
 MH> build up an let's say: "JUST 4 CD-ROM PC" and then give access
 MH> to my NOVELL clients under WFW 3.11. It's no problem to install
 MH> the clients with the Network device drivers for WINDOWS NetWork
 MH> and Novell, it's also no problem to define a WORKGROUP and open
 MH> an drive or directory to this workgroup, the problem is: Some
 MH> of the clients could see the Workgroup but not the "opened"
 MH> drives or directorys. Some of the clients couldn't see the
 MH> workgroup anyway.
Check sharing settings on individual workstations and workgroup names
(misspelled?).
 MH> Sure I could connect my CD-ROMs directly to the NOVELL Server,
 MH> but it will bring me perfomance probs when I will do it with 4
 MH> or 5 CD-ROM Drives. (doesn't it?).
Depends.  If using a product like Discport your jukebox (CD tower)
connects directly to the cabling system (like JetDirect does for
printers) and doesn't put a load on the server.  The only requirement is
the Discport software to configure the CD's and appropriate .NLMs on the
server so the CD's can be seen as valid mounted volumes (included with
Discport).
George
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