Re: [tlug] Re: Share CD burner on Samba?

[Edward Middleton <edwardmiddleton@example.com>]

On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 23:33, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> And Thus Spake Jonathan Q <jq@example.com> (on Wed, 2 Apr 2003 21:17:52
> +0700):
> 
> > Specifically, why not?  Granted, I have no tried sharing a burner over the
> > network from a Windows box, but they have no problem with sharing ordinary
> > CDROM drives over the network.  So, I take it you're saying it's only the 
> > burner-sharing part that doesn't work?
> 
> Precisely, unless you want to use the dreaded DirectCD (yuk) technique which
> is basically packet mode writing.
> 
The burner shareing part basically doesn't work because the atapi
drivers mostly dont support packet writting so you can't write to a udf
"DirrectCD" filesystem on your cd burner in linux.
-- 
Edward Middleton <edwardmiddleton@example.com>