[mythtvnz] Frontend access of backend DVD drive?

[Ross and Jemima Knudsen]

criggie at criggie.dyndns.org wrote:
> Ross and Jemima Knudsen wrote:
>   
>> Does anyone know if you can configure it so that a separate frontend can 
>> access a DVD drive from a remote backend machine over the network?  So 
>> you could get away with not having a drive on the frontend?
>>     
>
> You could do an NFS or SMB/cifs mount of a directory, and use some kind 
> of automounter on both machines.
>
> Personally I rip all our DVDs to a file then store the media.
>   
Thanks for the thoughts, I shall try mounting the drive as suggested.

Dare I ask what you use to rip DVDs?  This may need to be taken off list 
(I don't want another caffufle like what happened with the Sky thing).