[Samba] Sharing a CD-RW

[Kai Blin]

On Tuesday 20 August 2002 12:49, Buchan Milne wrote:

> > I'm a newbie at samba (I just configured the samba server on my Linux =
> > box). I was wondering if, along with the printer and disk space, I could
> > = even share the CD Writer on the linux box as a device which my
> > "windows" = friends could map and burn CDs on.
> > any comments would be of great help
>
> Not with samba until the kernel supports packet writing (maybe you can
> compile a kernel with suitable patches?).
>
> IMHO, the better solution is:
>
> http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/jhaeger/webCDwriter/

Webmin also allows some of this...

Cheers, Kai

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