Hello-- Can anybody tell me how, if it's even possible, to write a CD directly from a windows machine using a CD writer on a linux box via SAMBA? The writer is set up as a samba share and I can see it from the windows machine, even read files on a CD, but I can't get the windows machine to recognize it as a writer, only as a read-only drive. I've thought of writing an iso image to a samba share and then burn the cd using K3b on the linux machine, but that seems kind of inelegant. A quick perusal of google didn't turn up any solution except this two-stage method. Any suggestions will be welcome. Thanks, George -- George H. Griffin Powered by SuSE Linux 9.0, kernel 2.4.21 "Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps" Emo Philips
On Monday 23 February 2004 18:35, George H. Griffin wrote:
Hello--
Can anybody tell me how, if it's even possible, to write a CD directly from a windows machine using a CD writer on a linux box via SAMBA? The writer is set up as a samba share and I can see it from the windows machine, even read files on a CD, but I can't get the windows machine to recognize it as a writer, only as a read-only drive. I don't know if it is possible via Samba - but I do know of the following program which may help as an alternative:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/webcdwriter/ About: "webCDwriter can be used to make the CD- and DVD-writer(s) connected to a Linux box available to all users in your network. It consists of the server CDWserver and the clients webCDcreator and rcdrecord. CDWserver stores the files transmitted by the clients, reserves the CD-writer and controls the CD-writer using cdrecord. webCDcreator is a Java applet that runs within your browser or by Java Web Start, assists you when putting together a CD, and transmits the files. Finally rcdrecord is a command line client that tries to offer the functionality of cdrecord over the network with full multi-user support." jon
On Monday 23 February 2004 14:47, The Purple Tiger wrote:
On Monday 23 February 2004 18:35, George H. Griffin wrote:
Can anybody tell me how, if it's even possible, to write a CD directly from a windows machine using a CD writer on a linux box via SAMBA? The writer is set up as a samba share and I can see it from the windows machine, even read files on a CD, but I can't get the windows machine to recognize it as a writer, only as a read-only drive.
I don't know if it is possible via Samba - but I do know of the following program which may help as an alternative:
I second this suggestion. I use this program at work to allow those co-workers without a writer to burn CDs on my machine. It's convenient for me, as all I need to do is pop a disc in the drive, instead of stopping whatever I'm doing to fire up K3b and put everything together for them. -- Homepage http://scott.exti.net XFce desktop environment http://www.xfce.org Goodies for the XFce desktop http://xfce-goodies.berlios.de GPG public key ID: 811B00AB
The Purple Tiger wrote:
I don't know if it is possible via Samba - but I do know of the following program which may help as an alternative:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/webcdwriter/
About: "webCDwriter can be used to make the CD- and DVD-writer(s) connected to a Linux box available to all users in your network. It consists of the server CDWserver and the clients webCDcreator and rcdrecord. CDWserver stores the files transmitted by the clients, reserves the CD-writer and controls the CD-writer using cdrecord. webCDcreator is a Java applet that runs within your browser or by Java Web Start, assists you when putting together a CD, and transmits the files. Finally rcdrecord is a command line client that tries to offer the functionality of cdrecord over the network with full multi-user support."
jon
Thanks for the suggestion. It took a while, and some fiddling, but I have it up and running and have burnt a test CD. Now if I can make K3b stop opening when I put a blank CD in to burn via the web I'll be all set. George -- George H. Griffin Powered by SuSE Linux 9.0, kernel 2.4.21 "Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps" Emo Philips
On Monday 23 February 2004 1:35 pm, George H. Griffin wrote:
Can anybody tell me how, if it's even possible, to write a CD directly from a windows machine using a CD writer on a linux box via SAMBA? The
Best I can think of is that there is a pre and post command for the mount in SAMBA. The idea is that if it is a CD-ROM you are accessing from windows, the command would mount and unmount the cd-rom. You could use that ability so the files that are left in a dir are burned off to the cd-r when you unmount the share. Not very clean since you do not specifically request the system to burn the cd, but should work. Greg Engel
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 19:35, George H. Griffin wrote:
Hello--
Can anybody tell me how, if it's even possible, to write a CD directly from a windows machine using a CD writer on a linux box via SAMBA?
George, THis is over simplified but... What you want to do cannot be done on a windows server. SAMBA is an emulation of a Windows Server. Ergo. What you want cannot be done, on Samba... Jerry
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