Samba question (with unlikely solution)

[Sean]

IIRC i couldnt get sim city to install from a disk image or run from one
on the mac.. I think it does some sort of hardware check as a copy
protection scheme. 



On Mon, 8 May 2000, Mike Rambo wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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