Mounting .ISO's Into An NT File System?

haplo21112 asks: "We all know how to mount an ISO image into the Linux file system: mount -t iso9660 -o loop image.iso /mnt/isoimage. Unfortunately the rather large software distribution server I am stuck with here at work is 2000 based, but we would love to replicate this functionality somehow on the NT System. I have done many Google searches to find a way of doing this and come up empty. There seem to many utilities that will mount the .ISO as a 'virtual' CD rom drive, but this doesn't really solve the problem since we are talking about mounting something on the order of 200 .ISO images this way. I am looking to replicate the Linux functionality, create a directory, and mount the ISOs as subdirectories."

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An aside

[Rick the Red]

You'd have to get fancy to get past 26 drive letters though,

Interestingly enough, in MS-DOS 1.0 you could have 64 block devices. M$ reduced the number to 26 in MS-DOS 2.0 (and then, in perhaps the first known example of their arrogance, claimed that DOS 2 was fully upward compatible with DOS 1) because they couldn't figure out how to identify numbers 27 through 64. I guess they didn't understand ASCII.

Besides, who on earth would want more than 26 block devices? [Uh, maybe the same folks who would want more than 640k of RAM? Naaah.]

So now, as then, if you want something out of the ordinary (i.e., something useful) don't use Micro$soft products. I think the suggestion of using Samba on Linux under VMWare to serve the ISO images to the host W2K box is your best bet.