From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 11 10:35: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDCAD37B5F0 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:34:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id VAA08538; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 21:38:19 +0200 Message-ID: <396B5AF6.85C17015@i-clue.de> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:35:50 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael MacKinnon Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD Writers over a network? References: <4.3.0.20070711000753.00a86220@mail> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael MacKinnon wrote: > > Hi there, > > I've got a network with a Win98 machine and a FreeBSD machine. I want > to be able to use my CD-RW drive from both machines. > > Is there a way to have the CD Writer in my Win98 machine and write to it > from FreeBSD? > > Or is there a way to have the CD Writer in my FreeBSD machine and write to it > from Win98? > > Any help would be appreciated... 1) Use mkisofs to create an ISO filesystem image on FreeBSD, copy it over to your Winblows box, write it there. 2) User your favorite burner application to create an ISO filesystem image on your winblows box (ummm, Adaptec Toast does this, but it runs on Macs only), move the ISO over to your BSD box, burn it there. Both ways work. YMMV -Christoph Sold -- i-clue GmbH, Endersbacher Str. 57, D-71334 Waiblingen Fon: (0 71 51) 9 59 01-12, Fax: (0 71 51) 9 59 01-55 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message