Virtual CD Question

[Guest]

We run a Win2K box for remote desktop / terminal services access from outside
the firewall. And for our 'normal' users that is sufficient. But as a
developer it doesn't quite cut it.

I'm in the process of setting up a Visual Studio Team Foundation Server on a
Win2K3 box (lot's of headaches) and I've been wanting to work on it from home
this weekend. So I log into the Win2K box and remote over to the Win2K3 box
with no problem.

The problem is that the VS-TFS install is an ISO image that I mount using
the unsupported Virtual CD Control Tool. It won't mount the image using the
2 hops of remote access. It mounts just fine when I remote from my work
desktop.

Is this something that anyone here has any experience with?

Does anyone think that it would help if I made the Win2K3 box accessible
from outside the firewall? Or is the Virtual CD tool not gonn'a allow any
mounting command from outside the firewall?

Thanks for your time.

 

[Guest]

Not sure. Is there something wrong with burning a CD or DVD and storing the
information on the network, or putting the disk in the CD Drive?

Not the answer you were looking for, but there are usually more than one
solution to a problem.

 

[Guest]

I was trying to perform this operation from my home computer. Our remote
access port is on one server and I was trying to mount the iso on another
server behind the firewall. I guess I could have burned the DVD and left it
in the drive of the second server, except the ISO of interest was over 3 GB
and I don't think most DVD-Rs have that capacity.

But, I did figure out that it has to do with 2 "hops" i.e. remoting into one
machine then remoting over to the machine of interest, instead of being
behind the firewall or not, or one machine being Win2K or Win2K3.

 

[Guest]

Normal DVD-R are 4.7GB.

 

[Peter Cox]

virtual cd will not mount an iso from another machine. Copy the iso to the
machine where you want to mount it and it will be OK

Alternatively use Daemon tools, it supports network ISO mounting