How do I use a remote superdrive? I'd like to backup iTunes and iPhoto

I'd like to be able to use a remote shared drive. I know how to make it shared - but not how to then get another machine to share it!
I'd like to do remote backups to my mac mini superdrive - I have it there and I can see the disc, but, when I try to get iTunes or iPhoto to back up they only see the local drive.
Is there some way that I can do this with toast?
The superdrive on my G5 is faulty, I need to have it repaired. I do have one on my Mac mini that I have shared.
How do I get my iTunes backup to go to a remote, shared Superdrive DVD?

Can you not just manually drag the iTunes music files to the other drive and then burn them to the CD or DVD media? I do realize that by doing it this way you will lose all of your playlists but at least you would have copies of all your music and or video files. You could also copy all of your itunes library and related files to the shared folder or some other folder on the mini and then use iTunes on it to do the backup and then simply remove the copied files from the mini when you were done.
The built in backup that comes with iTunes is only designed to work with the built in drive not a shared drive I believe.

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