How to Share CD-Writer using Samba

[Simo Sorce]

As I understand, you want to burn pre-built-iso.
I would make you look either at pre-exec / post-exec scripts or the vfs layer to do this kind of things (or maybe smbclient is enough if you want to suck the iso from a windows share).

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:58:45PM -0800, shailendra suman wrote:
>  Hi,
> 
> I got information from somewhere that we can burn CD
> over the Network using FTP.
> 
> Procedure mentioned is as follows.
> We can couple the ftp-client and cdrecord via a fifo.
> Mkfifo cdimage
> ftp other.host.com
> get cdimg cdimage
> 
> Then treat cdimage like regular file, i.e. issue the
> following command:
> cdrecord dev=0,1,0 speed=2 cdimage
> 
> FTP-client will notice when cdrecord wants to read
> from the file and will start transfering data from the
> FTP-host. 
> 
> Frankly speaking, I haven't tried this also but if
> this is possible with FTP then why not with SAMBA.
> Can anybody through some light......
> 
> Thanks
> Sman
>  
> 
> 
> 
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