[Technical] Virtual CR-ROMs

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Jim, we are doing more or less the same thing as Stephen below .. we had an
issue with only one CDROM.

Thanks for the memory kick Clarky I must revisit Daemon Tools for another
look in. This will probably do the trick :-)

Regards Roland


On 13/09/06, Stephen Digby <digby.stephen.p at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
>
> Hello Jim...
> We are just turning OFF CD quickshare which metamorphosed into MA32 with a
> price kick...
> We find that "virtually" no CD's require this CD image fooling anymore and
> the "legacy software" is rarely used.
> We have also found that enabling the D drive to run executables has
> allowed
> the same "freedom" to flash drives with all sort of executables to be used
> !!!
>
> All our CD collection is now online and runs from network shortcuts to "T"
> drive where executables are allowed OR pre-installed on local machine.
> No other executable locations are allowed and students are prevented from
> installing any software.
>
> Great to hear from you...
>
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> So, do you live around here often ?
> Steven Wright
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On
> Behalf Of Jim Maunder
> Sent: 13 September 2006 11:27 AM
> To: tech at edulists.com.au
> Subject: [Technical] Virtual CR-ROMs
>
> Does anyone have recommendations for CD-ROM sharing software? I'm thinking
> of software that hosts a CD on a server (image, files or
> whatever) and allows classroom PC users to have access to a CD without it
> asking 'Please put the <wxyz> CD in Drive D'. I've used something years
> ago,
> but it was not free, and I can't remember what it was.
>
> rgds
> Jim
>
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