Can a CD burner be shared?

[Zagor]

I have two computers networked at home and i can share peripherals between the two however, I have not been able to find a way to share the CD burner to burn CDs. Is it possible to use one computer to burn a cd with the burner installed in the other computer? Whenever I launch the cd burning software (nero, easycd, cdrwin, etc.) they only see the cd attached to my computer and will not let me search the network for the burner on other computer.

 

[warlord]

burning across your network can be risky. you should be able to share your drive though, but as for drag and drop capabilities, you might be able to if you enabled full acess to the drive. I would try it an see, cd's are cheap

 

[Zagor]

Actually, I wasn't even thinking about burning across the network. I only want to be able to control the burner from the other computer. Basically, the burner is installed on my wife's computer. I want to be able to start a cd burn from my computer (all the data is stored on her computer anyway) without having to kick her off. I know, I know... I could just move the burner to my machine but I was just wondering if it was possible.

 

[Mday]

i don't think so.

 

[DO97]

PC Anywhere. But you're wife will have to watch as you get the burn going from your end.

dave

 

[anazoal]

You'll produce a LOT of coasters if you manage to control the CD-R process AND you're wife's using her computer. Since it's best to close any other apps when burning, you're wife shouldn't be using the computer anyway.

This wouldn't be a problem if you're using Direct CD, I think.

 

[Zagor]

Normally I would agree about not multitasking while burning a CD however, I just got a brand new Plextor 12/10/32 with burn proof technology and thought I'd give it a try. From what I have seen it seems to work. Just today my wife was burning a cd (making an audio CD at 12x..talk about fast!! under 7 minutes while she was playing an MP3 and chatting/uploading/downloading from Napster and no problem, the Cd she made works great in my home stereo. That was the only reason I was thinking about it.

BTW, Direct CD works fine across the LAN its just setting up a burn that I have not been able to do. Thanks anyway...