Share a DVD Burner on Vista PC

[Guest]

I am trying to share my DVD burner on my new Vista machine with my networked
Windows XP machine. I think I successfully "shared" it from the Vista PC.

When I try to access it from the XP machine via my network, I get the
message "DVD Drive is not accessible. You might not have permissions to use
this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out
if you have access permissions. The device is not ready".

The DVD burner works fine on the host PC.

What could be wrong?

Thanks!!

Dale

 

[Tim]

What is your goal? Are you sharing the burner to read/copy files from a
CD/DVD or are you trying to burn disks remotely from the XP machine?

Tim

 

[Guest]

My main/first goal is to back up my "XP PC" onto DVDs using the DVD burner on
the new PC that has Vista. I am fairly certain that is possible as soon as I
figure out how to successfully "share the DVD drive".

We are leave for a week vacation Wednesday morning so if I fail to reply for
a week, now you know why.

Thanks!!

 

[Dana Cline - MVP]

You can certainly backup a PC to a DVD burner, assuming you have software to
do that (Nero, etc). However, I know of no software that will write to a DVD
burner on a shared machine...I think they all have to be local.

You could always move that drive to the XP box temporarily to do the backup.

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

 

[Tim]

Agreed...you cannot burn to a remote burner. Moving the DVD burner to the XP
machine is a good idea...unless you still want to burn DVDs on the Vista
machine. You could purchase another DVD burner. They aren't that expensive
these days (of course, that's a relative thing).

Otherwise, I think you're sharing the wrong devices. Share the hard drive on
the XP machine, mount that drive share on the Vista machine, and backup the
mounted drive on the Vista machine's DVD burner.

Tim