Networking a CD-RW....

[twangboy]

I have installed a burner in one of the machines in our office. Works great. Under W2000, can I access the drive from another computer in the office? Will Nero find the networked drive or only native drives?

 

[JackMDS]

You mean that you will install Nero on your computer, but the burner(CDR-RW) is on another computer?

The the last time I tried it did not work.

 

[twangboy]

Yeah, Run Nero on another station, map the network drive (burner) and access it.

 

[WarSong]

I don't think it works if it's not local to the machine. You can access whatever CD is in the drive, but as far as I know, you can't burn to it.

 

[ivwshane]

Padus discjuggler now supports networked cdrw drives. I don't know if the software is capable of what you want but at least you can burn to another computer.

 

[JustinLerner]

I haven't tried Nero with any setup, but packet writing should work from any shared CD-RW drive (packet writing -- not session writing or disk at once writing) since packet writing works much like writing to any drive. At least this does work with some older Adaptec DirectCD 3 software (only installed on the PC with the CD-RW) and shared to the network like any other drive.

That said, the Adaptec DirectCD sofware has never worked well for me (or my CD writer for that matter) on my Win2000 and PC hardware platform, so I would only run something like the DirectCD software from Win9x/ME, which all work great with it.

Of course, with DirectCD, you are limited to UDFS formated CD's -- usually CD-RW CD's and not CD-R although both may be possible.

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You know, I would think that you would not want to write CD's across a network since network congestion, throughput and other issues may affect the CD burning. It would make sense to burn full CD-R's from one PC only, have an input directory on some LAN shared drive or NAS, then copy the data from the LAN share/NAS to the local drive before burning CD-R's. Otherwise, underruns may occur.

Just a recommendation.

 

[twangboy]

Thanks folks, I was wondering if it would or could work, but it sounds like a no-go.

 

[Iron Woode]

This issue has been brought up before in the AT archives.

With the new burners featuring burn proof it should work fine.

I remember someone here had it working over a network just fine.

Maybe some searching is in order.....

 

[CplHicks]

One possible comprimise solution is to logon to your computer with the CD burner remotely. If the computer with the burner is running WinXP Pro you could use remote desktop, if not you can get AT&T Labs' VNC for free, try google. That way you could burn CDs running Nero as if you were at the remote computer. While this isn't the completely the same as having Nero burn over the network I think the end result should be the same.