What's the problem with sharing a burner?

[Dug]

I know this has been posted before, but I couldn't find it in the search.

Besides not making much sense because you still have to get up and go to the machine that has the burner,

I still need to know the actual reason why it doesn't work well.

 

[SocrPlyr]

it has to do with how the burning program initializes the burner and something like it can't be done remotely or something, or at least not done easily... also something i think about mapped drives v. local drives... and also bandwidth of a network may be an issue... just ideas... but don't take my word for it...

my ignorance

Josh

 

[So]

I think SocrPlyr is right, I can't recall ever hearing of it being done. It is easy to burn files from across the network (i.e. you have the burner, the files are one another system).

 

[Need4Speed]

well network bandwidth shouldnt be much of a problem on a small LAN...I regulary burn files across my network without much problem...never made a coaster using my scsi plex12/4/32.

The problem arises when trying to "share" the burner using windows file sharing. It will only be recognized as a cdrom as far as i know. I was sure there was some proggy out there that could do it, but the name escapes me right now.

I either log into the remote box using vnc or i physically go to the box and burn the files across my LAN.

 

[Dug]

Thank you oh so very much.

 

[thorin]

Just VNC into the other machine and Burn pseudo locally.

Thorin

 

[CQuinn]

Packet writing software like DirectCD or InCD can allow you to mount the CDRW drive like a
removeable storage device. This allows for sharing across the network with write capability,
but only on disks that have been formatted for the packet writing process.