On 11/29/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 23:10, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > My laptop does not have a DVD writer, only a DVD/CD player. On the other > > hand, my desktop has the works. Other than booting the desktop in Gentoo > > and burning DVDs directly, is there a way to use it remotely from my > > laptop? Can I define in K3B my desktop's DVD drive(s)? How can I set > > this up for a LAN connection? > > > > While at it, is there a way to achieve this at all when the desktop is > > not running Gentoo, but WinXP? > > > > PS. I do not currently have SAMBA configured on either box. > > I think these two command chains should work: > > "mkisofs -opt1 -opt2 -optN /files/for/burning | \ > ssh desktop cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc -driveropts=burnfree -" <---for CDs > > "mkisofs -opt1 -opt2 -optN /files/for/burning | \ > ssh desktop growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/fd/0" <---for DVDs > > If you decide to try the above commands, please, do it with *RW media* > first, because I haven't tested them. Thanks for all suggestions. Daniel's idea seems to be closer to what I was looking for (I do not have Java installed on either box, although I could run Knoppix on the CD writer machine). Only I have no idea what the options should be to copy a DVD - I guess an iso image of the original? I'll need to go through that man page a few times, unless you can suggest an appropriate string of options. PS. When I used the k3b gui with default settings to copy a WinXP directory to a DVD it capitalised all filenames and substituted most characters like "&", spaces, etc with "_". I assume that this is because it applied Jolliet standard. How should I set it in K3B to get all the file name characters copied over intact? How would I do this in mkisofs, too? -- Regards, Mick on mkisofs I think you have to use -r for Rock Ridge then you should get
the "real" filenames
