On 11/29/06, Mick 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