How to make an XP CD-RW remotely writable?

[Patrick Bowman]

XP supports CD-RW drives directly, and does a nice job of
it. Is there any way that I can share a CD-RW drive so
that users on other machines can write files directly to
my CD-RW, without logging in on my console?

 

[Nathan Widmyer]

I don't think it's built in, but the only third-party software that I know
that can do it is NeroNET (http://www.ahead.de/us/631934399251526.html).
I'm a big fan of Nero Burning ROM so I'd expect this software to work just
fine. I'm going to install the trial to see how it works right now.

 

[Alex Nichol]

XP supports CD-RW drives directly, and does a nice job of
it. Is there any way that I can share a CD-RW drive so
that users on other machines can write files directly to
my CD-RW, without logging in on my console?

The burning system does not write direct to the CD drive, but to a
'holding area', by default CDBurning in your own Documents and
Settings\<username> folders. If you make that folder accessible across
the network, people can write to it, for you to burn the resulting
collection later. But you will have to check manually that the files
that build up are going to fit on a CD