This is a good idea IMO, although most of us have probably no usage for this software.

I have noted that it is possible to use the remote drive also to read discs. It's really handy in my case, as I have an excellent Nec IDE burner on my old PC. Sometimes, it can rip damaged CDs or DVDs when my new burner fails. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to install it in my new PC, as it has no IDE connector. Now, with NetBurner, I can use it, including to rip CDs or DVDs, from my main PC. Really nice!

However, NetBurner cannot mount a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. It must be a burner to be recognized. That's a pity, as even if its main usage is to burn discs, it might be useful to remotely read them too!

Another little limitation: I had to open the port 9260 in Windows firewall, and specify the IP and port of the server manually. Not a big deal imo.

Despite those limitations, I give it a thumb up.

P.S.: The server uses the StarWind Service Lite to communicate with the client, so it seems that the technology used by Paragon is exactly the same as the StarBurn one. I don't use StarBurn, but I think that NetBurner has the advantage that it can be used with ANY burner or ripper software. I checked it by ripping a DVD with DVD Decrypter, and it worked perfectly. :-)

r0lZ  –  14 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+29)

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#10:
You need to press "Registration" button, it will bring you to:
http://www.paragon-software.com/registration/nb.html
Fill this form, and serial number will be e-mailed to you

kiwi  –  14 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+24)

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The hard way? I've taken a DVD Burner and put it in a cheap external case with ESATA and USB connectivity. If I could read the displays on those tiny EEE PC screens - my drive would be perfect. (They do have USB on them right?)

It is mentioned that you can use this software instead of copying over the network to the PC with the burner - but either way, all that data is going to have to go from the remote PC to the burner, possibly the only difference is you won't need the space to store all of the data on the remote pc at once.

I'd be worried about some sort of network glitch while burning the disc - would feel much more confident burning from the remote hard disk to the remote burner, rather than from my computer - to the burner in the next building (just trying to minimize the possible points of failure).

BuBBy  –  14 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+22)

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I have BD-burner on my desktop, but such devices are really expensive now to buy them for my laptops as well, so for me it's really helpful. Also it's much easier to burn files directly from laptop without transferring them to desktop. Thanks.

Pitus  –  14 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+21)

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Asus EEE PCs and some other netbooks have preinstalled their recovery CDs into the hard disk and the ONLY way a user can make them is to connect somehow a dvdr and use the preinstalled software to burn the hidden images.

Asus and most other companies actually sell the recovery media in case you need them in the future (one day you will) and you havent burned them yourself beforehand.

So to many people, it is a useful program.
At least until they find out the hard way :-)

jumbi  –  14 years ago  –  Комментарий оказался полезным? да | нет (+21)

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