Mounting Virtual Drives as Physical Drives in Windows?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday November 12, 2003 @01:19PM from the but-what-about-the-DMCA dept.

Bombcar asks: "Samba 3.0 is an excellent CIFS server, but there are some limitations. For one, you can get a networked mapped drive, but some programs (Oracle, Exchange) refuse to run on a mapped drive, but only on local drives. I know there are some closed source (read: expensive) drivers that allow a SMB share to appear to be a physical disk. Is there any equivalent in the OSS community? What I want to be able to do is mount a share from a Linux server under Windows 2000 and have it appear as if it were a local disk. This will allow many programs that refuse (for what ever reason) to use anything but physical drives to access the network." Might such software be seen as a 'circumvention device' as specified by the DMCA? The submittor mentions that there are companies in this market already, but that doesn't mean that it will remain safe.

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YOU FAIL IT by Trolling+4+dollas · 2003-11-12 18:01 · Score: 3, Funny

This is a bad idea. Bad dork. Never use a network file share in place of a physical disk. It's like using a spork to eat soup with, sure it will work but why not just use the spoon for crying out loud?