Re: Remote CD/DVD writing with n-c-b

["Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <amadorm usm edu ec>]

Good idea.

Alternative approach:

you install OpenSSH on the cdwriter computer, and then place an icon on the
client computer which runs "ssh cdburner.lab.company nautilus cdburner://".

Thatīd open the Nautilus CD burner dialog on the clientīs desktop, but would
actually be running on the cdburner computer.

The only problem is how to copy files to the CD burner computer.  Your users,
AFAIK, cannot drag files to the cdburner window from locally running nautilus
windows.  I experienced this while trying to use Konqueror in this way, as
well.  I had to run a "ssh remote-computer konqueror fish://local-computer" to
open another window with a local view of the file system.

Kinda complex, and hard to understand.

Quoting nautilus-dev ahtech net:

> 
> 	Hi there!
> 
> 	I am studying the possibility of remote writing of CDs/DVDs. I
> have a production LAN where none of the workstations have a burner,
> while there are some at some other machines (let's say they're servers).
> 
> 	I'd like for the users to use the Nautilus cd burner to burn CDs
> on the remote burners. But AFAIK, there's no support for that in n-c-b.
> 
> 	I've alreaady tried (succesfully) remote cd burning with
> cdrecord (it uses RSCSI for that). Sure, it works, and there are also
> other GUI apps that support it (such as X CD Roast) but I definitely
> would like to use Nautilus for that.
> 
> 	And I haven't found this topic discussed in this list.
> 
> 	AFAIK, n-c-b gathers information about burners reading
> /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info. It doesn't do a cdrecord -scanbus because it
> may be slow (and parsing of the ouput prone to cdrecord output changes).
> 
> 	However, obviously, remote burners offered by userspace tools
> such as RSCSI would never show up in such kernel info. Since I consider
> remote burning a very useful feature to add to n-c-b, what about
> allowing n-c-b to use "cdrecord -scanbus" as a way to query burners, at
> least only for remote burners?
> 
> 	Here is my proposal/idea/suggestion:
> 
> 	in the burning dialogue, allow for a tab/extra section which
> says something like "check for remote writers" and a place to specify
> IPs where n-c-b may check for writers availability. Then, and only for
> remote drives, do a "cdrecord -scanbus" and add the extra results to the
> dropdown of available writers. (User won't complain because of slowness
> while querying for remote writers, since she will assume remoteness!)
> 
> 	Then, almost out-of-the-box (since cdrecord does the hard job)
> remote CD/DVD writing is supported within n-c-b.
> 
> 	How does it sound? Any other ideas? Suggestions?
> 
> 	Alvaro
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    suerte,

    Rudd-O

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