export an optical drive to windows

ToK · 06-16-2007, 01:28 AM

Hi everyone,

I have a debian etch server with an optical drive. Is it possiple to "export" the optical drive to windows? I want to use it for reading (with eac - so I need a raw access) and burning.

Greetings

ToK

cyberfishee · 06-16-2007, 01:48 AM

what emulation/simulation program are you using?

wine? VMware? Xen? qemu?

ToK · 06-16-2007, 01:52 AM

Hi cyberfishee

sorry, I've forgotten to tell: This are to different machines connected over ethernet...

cyberfishee · 06-16-2007, 02:49 AM

i see.

then maybe take a look at this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATA-over-Ethernet

I am by no means expert in this =D only read about it a while ago, and never did it myself

just a link to get started

maroonbaboon · 06-16-2007, 02:49 AM

You need to install SAMBA. Most distros will have a package for this.

Then you need to configure it to share the CD-drive. IIRC the default configuration file (usually /etc/samba/smb.conf) has a lot of examples which you can use just by uncommenting/modifying the relevant section.

The home site for samba is http://www.samba.org with full documentation, but it is pretty heavy going.

Edit: I just see you need raw access. Not so sure about that.

ToK · 06-16-2007, 07:57 AM

OK, I configured samba and autofs. It works as far as I only want to read files. I can't burn and I can't play audio-disks.

On the other hand is ATA-over-Ethernet. That's want I want (I think

I havn't tried it out). The problem is, that I can't find a free Windows-Client. Does anybody know one?