Remote CD Writing

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Hi all,
A quick question on remote CD writing. I'm looking at deploying a thin
client solution using Termianl Seriveces or Cirtix and was wondering if it is
possible to to make a drive mapping from the W2k3 server back to client
machine (Win XP Pro) and allow the use of CD-R / CD-RW's.

Baiscally, I'm hoping the packet writing fuctionality in Win XP will allow
the use of the CD-R or CD-RW as a writable network drive. Is this possible?
If it's not with the standard deployment of XP, are there any 3rd party
applications that will allow this?

Regards
Dan
 
My two cents - packet writing for CD burning is not the best plan. I've seen
many situations in which a CD created with that method is unreadable on
other computers. Also note that CD burning across network connections is
unreliable due to latency in the connection speed - can lead to buffer
underruns and unusable CDs.

What's your ultimate goal? There may be a better way to accomplish it.
 
What's your ultimate goal? There may be a better way to accomplish it.
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The ultimate goal is to allow our users access to the local client CD-R
drives from the remote W2k3 desktop or application. Eg, if they have been
using PP to design a presentaion on the w2k3 server and they want to save it
to thier own CD that's inserted in the local workstation

Regards
Dan
 
Why not use local drive redirection so they can save a copy locally & then
use their own CD burning software? Much more likely to work.
 
Dan said:
That was my inital thought, but the level of understanding of the
users concerned is low to say the least. We are trying to achieve a
system that is basically a "dumb" terminal. The standard XP xhell
will be hightly restricted, even possibly to the point of onlly
having a Citrix or RDT login shell.

So, basically we wnat the w2k3 server desktop to be the only thing
they use.
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Try it - but I don't know if it's gonna work. You're still going to have to
use drive redirection, and most CD burners don't support working across
network connections anyway. Even if yours do, I doubt you'll get good
results.
 
Lanwench said:
Try it - but I don't know if it's gonna work. You're still going to have to
use drive redirection, and most CD burners don't support working across
network connections anyway. Even if yours do, I doubt you'll get good
results.
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Thanks, I'll it give a try. Also, I'm being a bit slow here, when you say
drive redirection, what do you mean?

Regards
 
Dan said:
Thanks, I'll it give a try. Also, I'm being a bit slow here, when you
say drive redirection, what do you mean?
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In the options in your RD client, you can choose 'local drive redirection'
as well as printer redirection, etc. Might want to pick up the latest RD
client from MS downloads (free).

As I said, I have my doubts that you can even do this at all - but try away,
if you have time & CDRWs to burn!
 
Lanwench said:
In the options in your RD client, you can choose 'local drive redirection'
as well as printer redirection, etc. Might want to pick up the latest RD
client from MS downloads (free).

As I said, I have my doubts that you can even do this at all - but try away,
if you have time & CDRWs to burn!
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Ahh, all becomes clear. Yes, I was thinking that would be an option, but I
belived they would be mounted read only.

The other option I was thinking of is to use a reverse mapping from the w2k3
server using logon scripts and see if I could mount the drive that way, but
that failed to mount R/W giving an error if an unformatted CDR-W was used. I
guess we'll have to junk the idea and just get them to copy the files
locally. Ho-Hum.. 19,000 students to train!...

Thanks for all your suggestions.

Dan
 
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