Re: [PLUG] cd burning on a samba burner

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

Greg Lopp wrote:

> > Art Alexion wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Is there a way to get any Linux CD burning software to recognize and 
> > > use a CD writer that is actually attached to a windows PC on a samba 
> > > network?
> > >
> > >      
> Since burning a CD is fundamentally different than a simple write
> to an HD, this is unlikely.  Writing to an HD is something that
> passes down through the kernel, learning what fs the given volume
> is using and therefore what needs to be written in addition to
> just your data....but you don't care about all that. You just
> tell the system to write something and it handles the details.
> With a CD burner on the other hand, you use A) an application
> which knows what additional data needs to be written (mkisofs for
> example) and B) an application which knows how to talk to the
> firmware of your specific burner (like cdrdao or cdrecord). 
>
> Samba only allows you to see that there are remote volumes.  You
> can't see what fs they use (only the remote kernel needs to know
> that)  You only need to speak samba to write to the remote
> volume.  Samba does not speak firmware commands.
>  

I see.  The design of Samba which relies on the remote kernel to write 
to its volumes prevents this from working because cd burner software 
bypasses the kernel and writes to the cd by making calls to the burner's 
firmware.  Do I have it right?

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