Networked CD-rom?

[joker_927]

I have a DVD-ROM and a CD-RW. My mom's cd-rom failed, so I gave her my dvd-rom. Well, yesterday, my cd-rw died. Just died. I guess it was the end to a great life. *tear* She was a Lite-On 32x/12x/40x. I tried everything to revive it. It simply WON'T read disks.

Anyways.... now that I have to buy a new cd-rw I don't have any way to install games. Our computers are networked, is there anyway to access her computers CD over the network?


thx

[Mickwish]

Yep, Just share it like a hard drive or folder.

I run a couple of shared CD-ROM's on my home LAN so I can put CD's in in my office machines and the kids can use them in their bedrooms.

Cheers
Mick

[thePh@r@oh]

i would try it...what OS is it in 2k you can right click on the CD drive and choose sharing and that should cover it...dang mick your just too fast for me

[joker_927]

Windows XP on both machines.

[joker_927]

what about when the game I am playing requires the CD in the drive? will that affect anything?

some games might give you problems. what games were you thinking?

[joker_927]

Morrowind.

Well, I just shared the CD rom, it installed fine. It ran fine, but it takes a LONG time load, and my mom keeps telling me her cd-rom is spinning up.

So.... I "got" a file off the internet and problems are solved.

COOL ITS MORROWIND AGAIN!!!

thx guys!

ah game copy world to the rescue. you could of used a image program. made an image of the cd then just mount it on a virtual drive