Mounting a remote DVD drive

[Pooky]

The title really says it all. I have 2 machines, networked. I want to mount the remote DVD drive so I can rip off of it onto my fast machine. And no, I cannot move the drive to the other machine. Any ideas?


-Pook

[Kedirekin]

SmartRipper might be able to rip from a DVD-ROM mounted as a network drive.

I don't think DVDDecrypter can because it wants to talk to the drive directly (rather than through OS routines).


Alternatively you can run DVDDecrypter on the slow PC and have it write to a network-mounted hard drive on the fast PC. I do that fairly often - running Decrypter on the slow PC isn't really any slower.

[Pyscrow]

Originally posted by Pooky
The title really says it all. I have 2 machines, networked. I want to mount the remote DVD drive so I can rip off of it onto my fast machine. And no, I cannot move the drive to the other machine. Any ideas?


-Pook

net use y: \\192.168.0.2\e /persistent:no

This command line sequence will log a shared drive (named E) on remote computer with the IP address 192.168.0.2 as y: on the main computer.

Your rip speed will be limited by your network speed.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

By doing that, you'll still have to authenticate the disc on the remote machine. You cant do that unless you're sitting on the pc.

Also, you'll be forced to 'brute force' the decryption key for each file. I'm sure you can think up another way of doing it if you really want to - i.e use the method Kedirekin suggested.

[Pooky]

Wow. Thanks. I think I can get it working.

-Pook