Samba question (with unlikely solution)

[Brendan Guenther]

I found a program that I used to use called fakecd.  My original
recollection was that I used it on win95... though this page seems to
imply that it is only a DOS / Win3.1 tool.  Mind you its been 3 years
or so since I've used it so your results may vary.  Its worth a try:

http://www.chapman.enta.net/computing/fakecd/fakecd.html

-- 
Brendan Guenther
guenthe8@msu.edu

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Sean wrote:

> 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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