On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 17:45:46 -0500 (CDT) Gerry <gsker at tcfreenet.org> wrote: > This is way possible, but I've never been able to figure out why > someone would want to do this. > > If you want a CD burned, eventually you will have to walk over to the > burner machine anyway. Why not just have a shared workstation that a > user can go to and burn their CD? > Thanks for all the tips on it everyone, I think I'll look into the various web interfaces and see what will work best. The reason why I want to do it this way is: 1) There's only one burner 2) The system that it's connected to is on a KVM switch which is connected to my desktop and about 7 other machines 3) I would rather not have to devote a machine to being a CD writer only when I have better uses for it. The writer will only be used maybe once a week. 4) I'm a cheap bastard, and want to save money 5) Keeps people physically off my system and finally.... 6) The more I dummy-proof it, and make it a simple "click here to create your CD" button the less chance there is that someone will mess it up. Particularly for those who are not technical. If it's a cgi/php script that's fine. I'm not worried about someone internally hacking the system. If it was on an untrusted network, it'd be a different story. As to having to go to the machine and put a CD in, true. But the plan is to always have a blank CD in, and when you go to take the burned one out replace it with a new one. There won't be a lot of users, under 5 typically. For this scenario, it seems to be the best way. They won't have command line access, and if it's a web script it's accessable by all who need it without having to install an X-server. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list