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Old 02-10-2008, 13:37   #4
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Re: Enable network access to DVD drive on XP home

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Originally Posted by shayan View Post
Thanks.. it worked!

There's still one problem.. the reason why i needed to have access to the DVD drive on the xp home computer was to burn a DVD movie on it from the xp pro computer. however the application i'm using for the purpose (Roxio's DVD builder) does not seem to support writing across to a DVD drive on the network.. so in the end, the problem is still there. any ideas?
Yes, copy the movie to the XP home machine and burn it there. CD/DVD burning software does not support devices that are not local because there is no way to get their capabilities across the network.
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