[plug] Networked kernel support?

[Garry]

Suppose you have two machines, A and B.

B has an IDE CDR, A does not. 
B can happily burn CDs, as it has the SCSI emulation built in or moduled..

Does A need to have similar capability built into it's kernel, or can it 
mount and write to B's CDR? Assume A has an old kernel.

I ask because of the way printers are used by machines across a network, 
where the using machine must know the printer type.. Or is support for 
mountable drives a different kettle of mullet to printers?

(This is sort of hypothetical, but is to extend understanding.. It should 
extend to use of tape drives and other funny devices..I think.)


Garry.