Remotely mount CDWRITER

Hi

I have a machine with a cdwriter. Is it possible to make this cdwriter
available to a number of linux box. Very similar to NFS but never tried it
with cdwriter. All machines are installed with RH7.3.

How can I do this.

Any help appreciated.

Hiten

In comp.os.linux.setup Hitendra Patel <h.patel@rl.ac.uk> wrote:
> I have a machine with a cdwriter. Is it possible to make this cdwriter
> available to a number of linux box.

SSH into the machine and use cdrecord directly on the machine.
Davide

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Sorry my mistake.. copying files/directories etc from a linux box to a
machine that has the cdwriter.

Hiten

"Davide Bianchi" <davideyeahsure@onlyforfun.net> wrote in message
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> In comp.os.linux.setup Hitendra Patel <h.patel@rl.ac.uk> wrote:
> > I have a machine with a cdwriter. Is it possible to make this cdwriter
> > available to a number of linux box.
>
> SSH into the machine and use cdrecord directly on the machine.
> Davide
>
> --
> | When I first started working with sendmail, I was convinced that the
> | cf file had been created by someone bashing their head on the
> | keyboard. After a week, I realised this was, indeed, almost certainly
> | the case --Unknown

In comp.os.linux.setup Hitendra Patel <h.patel@rl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Sorry my mistake.. copying files/directories etc from a linux box to a
> machine that has the cdwriter.

I understood you right the first time. In order to write on the CD
the system have to directly send command to the SCSI subsystem, this
can't be done by remote and shouldn't be done (you don't know what's
going on on the remote machine), so, you copy your data onto the machine
or better yet make an ISO image on your own machine and then
transfer the ISO image over the network to the remote machine, then
SSH into the machine and use cdrecord to burn the image directly.

Davide

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Hitendra Patel wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a machine with a cdwriter. Is it possible to make this cdwriter
> available to a number of linux box. Very similar to NFS but never tried it
> with cdwriter. All machines are installed with RH7.3.
>
> How can I do this.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Hiten
>
>
There are a few applications/network daemons out there that let you do
that. I have not used any of them, however,
http://joerghaeger.de/webCDwriter/ seems to be well maintained.

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Davide Bianchi wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.setup Hitendra Patel <h.patel@rl.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Sorry my mistake.. copying files/directories etc from a linux box to a
> > machine that has the cdwriter.
>
> I understood you right the first time. In order to write on the CD
> the system have to directly send command to the SCSI subsystem, this
> can't be done by remote and shouldn't be done (you don't know what's
> going on on the remote machine), so, you copy your data onto the machine
> or better yet make an ISO image on your own machine and then
> transfer the ISO image over the network to the remote machine, then
> SSH into the machine and use cdrecord to burn the image directly.
>

Well, it _can_ be done, using recent cdrtools/cdrecord versions'
"rscsi" (Remote SCSI, obviously) facility.

man cdrecord.

And, as rscsi is as highly portable as the whole cdrtools package,
this is even possible between differing OSes on either end of the
LAN connection, even (yes...) the Win32 family.
This does work fine for me; I even have been able to use 3 cdrecord
instances to 3 cd-burners simultaneously (2 local, 1 remote.) ;-)).

The security aspects of this approach are another story, obviously,
- some of which are indeed discussed in the cdrtools documentation.

Juergen