netwroking my cd burner

[Guest]

i have to computers both with XP home edition over a small home network. i
have figured out how to find the drives on the other computer like the cd-rom
and the cd-burner. but when i try to access them i get this message:

"\\(computername)\cd burner is not accessible. You might not have
permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this
server to find out if you have access permissions."

both of my computers only have on user on each and the burner in an internal
burner. both the users on each computer are administratores. is there a way
to get rid of that message and a way for me to use the cd burner. all the
drives are shared. does having a password on the computer with the cd-rom
have any affect or the xp firewall? please help

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

most CD-burners are not able to be shared over a network...although the
option may appear in it's properties box, the hardware will only work with
the computer in which it is installed. If you have a drive that *CAN* be
networks, you will need third party software to write to the drive.

Bobby

 

[Guest]

well, how can you tell if it "can" be networked. and what do you mean by
third party software

 

[Ben]

You should be able to share the drive and see
folders/files from networked machines if the drive is
shared. You should be able to copy those files to other
machines on the network. In short, files on CD work just
like any other shared drive from a Read-Only perspective.

I don't think you can write to the drive from the
network. You'd have to copy files to the machine that has
the burner, and use your burner software to burn the files
to disk.

HTH
-Ben