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Mounting Virtual Drives as Physical Drives in Windows?

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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  1. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I hope you know you are a fucking god damn idiot.

    You dont want to pay for software because you are a nigger-jew.

    You ask this shit to do stupid things. No one wants to do what you are asking.

    Did you ever even try DFS and see if you could do it?

    Get a fucking Job, off welfare. And no, a 13 year old girl from Lahore Pakistan doesnt really count as a "wife." Mail order an older one.

  2. Re:tsarkon reports on a greased up yoda doll yeah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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