> michael hast wrote:
>> Is it possible to have a box read and write to a removable media drive
>> on another box in the network? ie-cd/dvd-rw? If so, how difficult a
>> task is this? There are several machines on my home network and it just
>> seems dumb to have to buy cd-burners for each of them. Thanks.
>>
>
> Sure. You have to make sure you've got media in the drive, mount it, and
> then share it via NFS or Samba. A removable media device is like any
> other as far as mounts and sharing are concerned.
Another option may be to use a loopback mounted ISO filesystem that's exported via
NFS. When complete, just burn the ISO.
Or use UnionFS (Check out the Copy-on-Write) section below:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7714
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