Samba question (with unlikely solution)

[Mike Rambo]

Alan Garrison wrote:

> I have a game under Win98 (SimCity 3000) which requires the
> CD to be in the CD drive to play.  I made an ISO of the
> CD on my server, loop-mounted it, and then shared that out
> via Samba.  I mapped a drive in Win98 to that ISO mount and
> actually installed the game from it.  When I go to run the game,
> however, it still looks for a CD in the CD drive (even though
> it is a different drive letter from the ISO mapped drive).  Is
> there any way to trick Windows in to thinking that the network
> drive map is a CD rom drive?
>
> I'm guessing I can't, but might as well try.
>
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The thing I'd suggest would be to look for .ini or other
configuration files in the SimCity install dirctory (or even
\windows) on your local Win98 machine.  We have sometimes found that
those files will contain references to the drives wherein data can
be located.  While many software installs will correctly identify
and associate network drives - not all will.  A couple of elementary
schools have CD based games that will run from the network only
after you find the .ini file and edit it to correctly indicate the
location of the data.  It seems some vendors build the .ini files to
assume the CD is d:.

Hope that helps.

Mike Rambo
Lansing School District