legacyprog

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I have tried K3B and get "Remote Files Not Accepted", both through drag and drop and the open dialog. An example of the file I am trying to burn is "smb://localpcname/sharedfolder/fullsize.iso"

With Brasero I didn't even get that far.

I am running Ubuntu 8.04.

There are too many files and they are too large to copy them all to the Linux box and burn them there, though I could (of course) do that one DVD at a time, and delete the copied files after burning. I was just hoping someone would have a less labor intensive solution.

Burning DVDs on the same PC on which the files reside is not an option due to hardware limitations.

Whether or not anyone can help, I wish all who read this a Safe and Happy Holiday Season!

tmerriam

Sounds like K3B and Brasero don't like burning from samba. Did you try mounting it?

I found this that on an opensuse forum, and it worked fine on Slackware, but you may need to tweak some of those options, maybe use smbfs.

This should trick K3B into thinking your share is a real local folder. You could still run into problems if space is an issue on the burning computer, K3B caches to /tmp. I would also recommend to you burn at the slowest possible speed and use the 'verify written data' option to help avoid coasters.

Good luck!

legacyprog

Thanks very much tmerriam!

This just shows I'm still a Linux newb (after years of dabbling with it). I should have thought to try mounting, but live and learn.

What ended up working for me (in case anyone else comes to this thread) was installing smbfs in Synaptic Package Manager (turns out I didn't have it installed, only Samba itself). Then for the mount I did:

sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=me,password=mypw //192.168.1.102/Temp /RemoteTemp

Then an ls RemoteTemp showed the iso files on the Windows machine, and I was able to use K3B to burn them (using, as you rightly pointed out, a slow speed setting and verify option).

Thanks again.