[plug] Networked kernel support?

Bill Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au
Thu Feb 15 20:24:48 WST 2001


http://freshmeat.net/redir/webcdwriter/11386/url_homepage/
and for the home page
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/~jhaeger/webCDwriter/

Didnt take long to find!

Let me know how it goes

BillK

Garry wrote:
> 
> 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.



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