anw Posted May 2, 2012 Posted May 2, 2012 I've seen lots of posts where files stored on networked drives are burned to a local optical disk, but I want to do this the other way around. I want to burn files on a local disk to a DVD/Blu Ray drive shared on the network (as playable DVD/Blu Ray video disks, not data files, although that would be nice, too). The logs don't help, because ImgBurn on the networked machine never sees the shared network optical drive. It shows up in Win Explorer (Win 7 Home Premium Edition) and I can use Explorer to copy files to it, but ImgBurn doesn't have it listed in the available drives. Have I missed a configuration parameter or something? This is my first two hours of trying to use ImgBurn. TIA, Allen
anw Posted May 2, 2012 Author Posted May 2, 2012 (edited) In order to "fulfill all righteousness", here's the log from the ImgBurn startup (I had to move to the other computer), but now that I'm looking closely at it, it looks odd. The drive listed as #2, "I", is listed as "USB", but is a CD drive. The drive listed as #1, "D" is the DVD drive and is the one that actually shows up in ImgBurn. I'm not too familiar with this computer, so I'll see what's going on there. Meantime, here's the log: I 15:50:29 ImgBurn Version 2.5.7.0 started! I 15:50:29 Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium x64 Edition (6.1, Build 7601 : Service Pack 1) I 15:50:29 Total Physical Memory: 8,379,512 KB - Available: 7,114,260 KB I 15:50:29 Initialising SPTI... I 15:50:29 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 15:50:29 -> Drive 1 - Info: HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GH50N B101 (D:) (ATA) I 15:50:29 -> Drive 2 - Info: WD Virtual CD 1110 2003 (I:) (USB) I 15:50:29 Found 1 DVD±RW/RAM and 1 Unknown! TIA (again), Allen Edited May 2, 2012 by anw
LIGHTNING UK! Posted May 2, 2012 Posted May 2, 2012 Sorry, you just can't do that with optical drives. Mapped drives won't work in programs that talk directly to the drive at a low level - not for hdds or optical drives.. There's probably some software you can get that you run on both machines and it makes the drive look like it's a local device - you'd have to Google for that though, I've never used/needed it.
anw Posted May 2, 2012 Author Posted May 2, 2012 (edited) Hey, thanks for the quick response! I've seen hints of that on the web, but nothing specific. Do you have a link or some source where I can get more details? Before I posted, I spent a couple of hours googling around, but found nothing really specific, like what the issues really were. Edited May 2, 2012 by anw
LIGHTNING UK! Posted May 2, 2012 Posted May 2, 2012 Maybe this would work? http://www.paragon-software.com/business/net-burner/
anw Posted May 2, 2012 Author Posted May 2, 2012 (edited) Well, that looks like it may solve my problem- thanks! Just to satisfy my curiosity, though, I was trying to find out what the issues are with writing to an optical drive over the network. When I get a chance, I'll google some more. Thanks for all the help! Allen Edited May 2, 2012 by anw
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