Sharing Optical Drive of A Linux Host

Hi,
Can I access the optical drive of an Ubuntu/Linux host?
Thanks....

Remote disk requires at least Windows XP or Mac OSX. No other operating system are supported at this time.

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  • Error while trying to install NI-VISA driver on SUSE LINUX 11.1(The version of gcc in the path does not match the version of gcc used to compile the currently running kernel.)

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    URL         : http://www.kernel.org/
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  • [SOLVED] Optical drive no longer detected

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  • External Optical Drive Not Recognized

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