share a cdrom

[Crash893]

is there anyway to share a cdrom and have it show up as a cdrom on the other computer ( this is in windows xp)

 

[john240sx]

i tried doing this a few weeks ago but i couldn't get it. if it's possible i want to know too.

crash, you've been asking some off the wall questions lately. what kind of project do you have going?

 

[Crash893]

you dont know the half of it man

finally got my home network up and running so i can actually do some of the stuff ive been dreaming up

( cpu#1 in my room cpu#2 is downstairs tied into the tv and stero

and im just knocking out the kinks)

im also doing alot of installs and i dont like walking up and down the stairs so i can get to it with vnc but not the cdrom

i could do it with one of thouse cdrom emulators and just transfer the image over but it would be easyer to just put it on share


please excuse me if this isnt a coherent post im about ready to passout

 

[DDR-PIII]

Yeah, in windows XP just right click on the drive and goto properties and then the sharing tab, click the blue writing and set yo settings

 

[Ridenow]

Interesting question. I know how to share it in 2000, but it shows up as a network drive (acts like a hard drive). I do not know about XP.

The easy way is to go to the run line in the start menu. Type \\<the IP>\d$ where d is the drive letter you want.
For example, I have an Office CD in my server. If I wish to access it I type \\192.168.0.100\e$

 

[vinyljunky]

Probably not what you are looking for, but just in case

fileexplorer->tools tab->map network drive : enter '\\name of pc\name of cdrom' , choose a drive letter. Thats the closest I know to getting a cd drive shared, this just treats it as a network hard drive that will show up in file explorer alongside the local drives. You can choose if it reconnects every logon or not.

 

[TimDgsr]

I don't understand, why would it matter if it shows up like a cdrom or a hard drive as long as you could get the information from it? I mean, everyone knows right click the drive, properties, sharing. So I take it that's not what you're looking for. So what are you trying to do with it?

 

[Crash893]

some apps look spesificly for a cd

i have like 4 extra cd roms laaying around

so i was going to make a cheap box and put a ide card in there and just put them all in there so i dont have to change the cds on my computer

like a file server but a cd server

 

[Kid Payne]

Did you try this?
Open "My Computer" from the PC that has the CDROM.
Then click sharing. That's all I had to do. I don't use the CD ROM on my network, but it works.

 

[Crash893]

yea i know how to share it as a regular network drive but that treats it more like a hard drive than a cdrom

anyone else

 

[TimDgsr]

i've been looking around, but haven't seen anything really. if you find a way, please post it I'd like to know as well now.

 

[vinyljunky]

MA32+

This piece of software is the closest I could find to what you want. What it appears to do is make images of your CDs on the server and then other clients can access those images as if they were on a cdrom through some sort of frontend. I will definitely be trying this software.

 

[rogerdugans]

The only idea I have on this is- some things need to either access the SAME drive (games) that they were installed from to run, others can be changed in a config file or the registry.

And of course there are a few things which absolutely insist upon a cdrom. The only way around that I have ever found is the Virtual CD programs.

 

[jokrswild]

i've installed programs off of a cdrom on another computer on the network.. So unless the program is specifically looking for a cdrom, it should just look at the drive letter it was called from..

BTW, i did have to map it as a network drive, so it had a drive letter.

 

[DaBigJ]

I make image files of all the cds I use (with CloneCD--it's a great prog) and mount the images using Daemon Tools. I installed Daemon Tools on my other comp also because it allows you to mount an image on a network drive. Another plus: hd's are way faster than cd drives, even over a LAN.

get Daemon Tools here: http://www.daemon-tools.com/daemon_tools.htm

 

[Crash893]

yes but wouldnt that eat up the hdd space

 

[Audioaficionado]

I'm having the same problem over my LAN too. All drives are shared read only so someone can't screw with the files on another computer but can access and even copy them except music CDs. When opened, they look just like music tracks, but the full data isn't being shown. The tracks only have about 1/1000 of the expected data like I was just looking at the labeling data for the tracks. Even tried to copy them to my HD from the other computer's CD-ROM. No go as the track only was like 44kb when finished. Next I'll try to create a wav file on the other comp's HD and see if I can play that over the LAN.

Edit: I can't play even my local CD-ROM drive through the LAN explorer menu but I can directly by opening my desktop CD-ROM shortcut, highlighting tracks, and selecting 'play with winamp' (the default player).

 

[Audioaficionado]

Heres why we can't do it:

"Audio cd's are direct stream. If you look at the tracks they are 1kb each. Just a mark to show where the data stream is. Your cd player reads the data bit by bit, 0's and 1's, and it sends this data on the cable to your sound card. If you unplug the cable from your cd player to your sound card it will show the cd playing but you won't hear anything. This is why you can't hear it over a lan. No wire going into your sound card."

 

[Crash893]

im not trying to do audio

im trying to do data

i wonder however if you could splise one of thouse cables in to the unused wires on a catv and then revese it at the other ocmputer

 

[Audioaficionado]

I can copy data to my machine and even launch apps from the other computer to my computer from a remote CD-ROM. But I still can't copy or rip wav files from the remote CD.