Network CD/DVD Burner

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ctford0 · Post by **ctford0** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:55 pm

I've heard that it's possible to share my DVD burner across the network so my other computers can use it, but I haven't been able to find any info on it anywhere. Anyone know of a place where I could find some info about this??

chris

luisfelipe · Post by **luisfelipe** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:39 pm

There is a java app that does this, but I can't remember it's name right now. But I can tell you that I tought
it pretty much sucked in my opinion.

What I did was share a directory on the server through NFS, and then have people burn stuff using a console
based app (such as bashburn) via SSH. Way better I think.

curtis119 · Post by **curtis119** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:47 pm

from the cdrecord MAN page:

To access remote SCSI devices, you need to prepend the SCSI device name
by a remote device indicator. The remote device indicator is either
REMOTE:user@host: or REMOTE:host:
A valid remote SCSI device name may be: REMOTE:user@host: to allow
remote SCSI bus scanning or REMOTE:user@host:1,0,0 to access the SCSI
device at host connected to SCSI bus # 1,target 0 lun 0.

You should be able to add a device to the remote burner in any modern CD application like k3b or Gnomeburner (I think, try it and see).

ctford0 · Post by **ctford0** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 3:37 am

Thanks, I'll give it a try and report back.

chris

ctford0 · Post by **ctford0** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:36 am

well, it seems i have to setup rsh for this to work. For whatever reason rsh, rexec, nor rlogin are inserted into my /etc/services file. That means when I try to connect I'm denied since the rsh server is never executed. Anyone know what port etc. it should run on??

EDIT: Here are some of the instructions I found.

chris

curtis119 · Post by **curtis119** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:39 pm

ctford0 wrote:well, it seems i have to setup rsh for this to work. For whatever reason rsh, rexec, nor rlogin are inserted into my /etc/services file. That means when I try to connect I'm denied since the rsh server is never executed. Anyone know what port etc. it should run on??

EDIT: Here are some of the instructions I found.

chris

Nice, let us know if you get it working. rsh is port 544 I think. You should be able to tell it any port though in it's conf.d file.

ctford0 · Post by **ctford0** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:57 am

Well, i think i have it.....

i had to edit /etc/services and add rsh. i found an entry that was similar to rsh and copied it. then had to set disable=yes to disable=no in the rsh config file in /etc/xinet.d/. I also had to recompile my kernel to emulate scsi with my burner. For some reason only scsi devices are shared so i have to use scsi emu.

chris

ctford0 · Post by **ctford0** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:27 am

Just a little more than upset to find out that I've done all this and k3b doesn't allow me to add a remote device

...... Oh well, hope this helps someone else LOL

chris