Can I share CDrecorder via network?

Hi,
I have following setup: two linux boxes connected via local network,
from which one is equiped with CD-recorder while the second one is
not. I would like to let the second machine users to acces CD-recorder
on the first machine so they can burn their files with it. I tried to
share a symlink to /dev/scd0 with samba but

cat /mnt/machine1/dev/scd0

did not caused any CD-recorder activity while run on second machine.
If I do cat /dev/scd0 on first machine CD-recorder led blinks and some
data are displayed.

So, my question is: what should I do to be able to share my
cd-recorder? I would be glad to find a generic way to share device
files since in future I would like to be able to share serial port
too.

kind regards,
Tomasz Sztejka.

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 22:27:02 -0800, Tomasz Sztejka wrote:

> Eric <nospam@email.com> wrote in message
> (..)
>> You can use cdrecord across a network, at least i do and it works very well
>> on my 100mbit network, if lightly loaded i think a 10 mbit network should
>> work ok too.
>>
>> try this:
>>
>> [MyPCwoBurner]#mkisofs -r ./bkup.tar | ssh myPCwBurner "cdrecord -v -speed=4
>> -dev=0,3,0 -fs=8m -eject -data -"
>>
>> adjust -speed= to match your cdrwriter
>> cdrecord -scanbus will provide the values to use for -dev= param
>>
>> Eric
>
> Nice idea, but not exactly what I want. I would be glad to be able to
> use for example KreateCD or other Cd-burning GUI. Is this possible? I
> think those will need /dev/scdX to be pointing to CD-recorder.
>
> The use of ssh gives me some ideas...
>
> regards,
> Tomasz Sztejka
Saw something a while back, don't remember whether freshmeat.net or
sourceforge.net

Reinhard X. Fuerst wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> So, my question is: what should I do to be able to share my
>> cd-recorder? I would be glad to find a generic way to share device
>
> I use webCDwriter for this purpose. It works really fine.
>
> <http://joerghaeger.de/webCDwriter/>
>
> Regards
> Reinhard

You can use cdrecord across a network, at least i do and it works very well
on my 100mbit network, if lightly loaded i think a 10 mbit network should
work ok too.

try this:

[MyPCwoBurner]#mkisofs -r ./bkup.tar | ssh myPCwBurner "cdrecord -v -speed=4
-dev=0,3,0 -fs=8m -eject -data -"

adjust -speed= to match your cdrwriter
cdrecord -scanbus will provide the values to use for -dev= param

Eric

Eric <nospam@email.com> wrote in message
(..)
> You can use cdrecord across a network, at least i do and it works very well
> on my 100mbit network, if lightly loaded i think a 10 mbit network should
> work ok too.
>
> try this:
>
> [MyPCwoBurner]#mkisofs -r ./bkup.tar | ssh myPCwBurner "cdrecord -v -speed=4
> -dev=0,3,0 -fs=8m -eject -data -"
>
> adjust -speed= to match your cdrwriter
> cdrecord -scanbus will provide the values to use for -dev= param
>
> Eric

Nice idea, but not exactly what I want. I would be glad to be able to
use for example KreateCD or other Cd-burning GUI. Is this possible? I
think those will need /dev/scdX to be pointing to CD-recorder.

The use of ssh gives me some ideas...

regards,
Tomasz Sztejka