[KLUG Members] Sharing a DVD Burner

[Phillip Hofmeister]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 at 02:30:28PM -0500, Andy Eidson wrote:
> Hey all... I have a DVD Burner on my SUSE 9.2 box..
> and I can see it through my Network Neighborhood via
> Samba on my windows machine. It looks like a folder
> and not a CD/DVD drive though. Is there a way of
> having it be viewed as a CD/DVD drive so I can
> possibly burn from my windows machine as well? 

For a long while CD Burners were something that suffered from buffer
under-runs (if the reading process didn't read quick enough then the
write would fail).

If this is the case with DVDs (which I suspect it is) then no.  Even at
100 Mbs you would not have enough bandwidth to send data to the DVD
Burner.  Furthermore, most commercial CD/DVD Burning software is
designed to work with SCSI emulated devices.

I have heard of some web applications that allow you to upload an ISO
File to the system and burn a CD Via a web interface.  Alternatively you
could alway upload the files to the Linux host (using say SCP) and then
use Linux utilities via SSH to burn the files.

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Phillip Hofmeister