[Samba] Sharing a CD-RW

[Buchan Milne]

> Message: 12
> From: "Deepak Chawla" <dchawla at cse.unl.edu>
> To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 01:23:08 -0400
> Subject: [Samba] Sharing a CD-RW

> Hi,
> 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/

You could have googled first:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=cd+writer+server+linux&spell=1
(match number 6)


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