Hi Jenny,

2009/9/28 Jenny Hopkins hopkins.jenny@gmail.com:

If I have a debian server (no X window system installed) that has a cd/dvd burning drive on the same intranet as a debian client that has no dvd burner, is there any method known to man or beast that can allow the server drive to be shared?

This may be of some use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA#ATA_over_Ethernet

First, I'm not sure how to include the drive in exports, as surely it isn't mountable with just a blank medium in it? Secondly, if I could somehow do the latter, how would I tell the dvd burning GUI that the medium to be used is an nfs mounted share?

I would think most, if not all, burning software expect to access actual block devices, which I don't think can be provided over NFS shares. But ATAoE or iSCSI should solve that.

Srdjan