Is this possible with windows?

[slugg]

Basically what I would like to do is buy ONE DVD burner for the entire house to be installed in one host computer where other remote computers can use Nero (or whatever other software) to burn CD's/DVD's through the network to the DVD burner on the host computer. Am I dreaming or can this actually be done?

 

[VisionxOrb]

it might work, your gonna have to set it up as a network drive so that the remote computers give it a drive letter. on the server share the drive and on the remote computers go to my computer under tools is "map network drive" and then map it to a drive letter.

the only problem I see is you might be able to out run your network speed with the burner. I think DVD 16x is 22meg a sec and 100baseT is 100 megabits or 12.5 megabytes per sec. and after overhead youll be lucky to get 10megs per sec.

 

[Sunner]

One could just burn at lower speeds, however, Nero will want a burner to burn to, not a network drive.
Unless you can think of a way to fool Nero into thinking the mapped drive is actually a burner and not a network mount, I don't see it working.

 

[jlbenedict]

Make sure you get a couple of hamsters, so you can have the discs changed after each burn.

 

[timotl]

Take a look at the latest version of Alcohol 120%.
They include the StarWind iSCSI driver to share physical drives with.
I can't remember off hand if they include the initiator or if you will need the free iSCSI Initiator from Microsoft.

-timotl