Is it possible to share and remotely access a DVD-RW Drive?

[Bryan]

I have two XP machines that are sharing files fine. One machine has a
DVD-RW that I'd like to write to from the other machine for archiving
purposes. I can remotely read data from that drive but I can't write to CDs
or DVD's. Any magic required or is this just not possible.

Thanks in advance, Bryan

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Although there may be software out there somewhere that supports this, I
don't know that I've seen any myself. You'd probably also likely have
problems keeping enough data flowing over the network smoothly to keep the
burner running without getting buffer underruns and such.

Since you (eventually!) need to go to the machine with the DVD-RW drive to
load media anyway, why not copy files to a shared folder on the machine with
the DVD-RW drive and then burn them from the local shared folder to the
DVD-RW drive?

 

[Bryan]

Richard - never thought of staging the process.... I have plenty of room on
the machine with the DVD-RW so I should be able to do that as long as I can
split the backup across multiple DVD's.

Thanks for the idea, Bryan

Although there may be software out there somewhere that supports this, I
don't know that I've seen any myself. You'd probably also likely have
problems keeping enough data flowing over the network smoothly to keep the
burner running without getting buffer underruns and such.

Since you (eventually!) need to go to the machine with the DVD-RW drive to
load media anyway, why not copy files to a shared folder on the machine with
the DVD-RW drive and then burn them from the local shared folder to the
DVD-RW drive?

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I have two XP machines that are sharing files fine. One machine has a
DVD-RW that I'd like to write to from the other machine for archiving
purposes. I can remotely read data from that drive but I can't write to CDs
or DVD's. Any magic required or is this just not possible.

Thanks in advance, Bryan

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Glad I was able to help.

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Richard - never thought of staging the process.... I have plenty of room on
the machine with the DVD-RW so I should be able to do that as long as I can
split the backup across multiple DVD's.

Thanks for the idea, Bryan

Although there may be software out there somewhere that supports this, I
don't know that I've seen any myself. You'd probably also likely have
problems keeping enough data flowing over the network smoothly to keep the
burner running without getting buffer underruns and such.

Since you (eventually!) need to go to the machine with the DVD-RW drive to
load media anyway, why not copy files to a shared folder on the machine with
the DVD-RW drive and then burn them from the local shared folder to the
DVD-RW drive?

--
Richard G. Harper [MVP Win9x] (e-mail address removed)
* PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
* for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to.
* HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

I have two XP machines that are sharing files fine. One machine has a
DVD-RW that I'd like to write to from the other machine for archiving
purposes. I can remotely read data from that drive but I can't write

to
CDs

or DVD's. Any magic required or is this just not possible.

Thanks in advance, Bryan