Shared DVD-ROM drive

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2006-03-22 09:10pm

A friend bought Elder Scrolls Oblivion, but the problem is he bought the DVD-ROM version when he only has a CD drive so the question I pose to you is....

How do you get Windows XP to see a mapped DVD-ROM drive from one computer to appear as a DVD-ROM drive and not as a mapped drive?

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2006-03-22 10:07pm

You can't.

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2006-03-22 10:19pm

phongn wrote:You can't.

Suspected as much...

Thanks.

BloodAngel · Post by **BloodAngel** » 2006-03-22 10:32pm

...?

There's an option for Sharing under any CD/DVD drive, what are you talking about?

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2006-03-22 10:35pm

BloodAngel wrote:...?

There's an option for Sharing under any CD/DVD drive, what are you talking about?

Right, but we need it to act as if the drive were apart of the computer that is using the shared drive.

BloodAngel · Post by **BloodAngel** » 2006-03-22 10:46pm

Nevermind, I see. Misread your question.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2006-03-22 10:58pm

Read the disc into an ISO image, mount over network via daemontools?

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2006-03-22 11:02pm

Pu-239 wrote:Read the disc into an ISO image, mount over network via daemontools?

Yeah, that was basically our next step. It worked...

To elaborate we were able to burn an image to my hard drive and then transfer the image over the network to the computer without the DVD. The game installs and plays from the image w/ a DVD emulator.

This involved a product that my friend payed for just in case there are any legal concerns.

Dendrobius · Post by **Dendrobius** » 2006-03-23 12:26am

Wouldn't sharing the drive on the DVD equipped computer, then mapping it as a Network Drive on the bereft one work? My memory is hazy about this, but it's a bit less messy than ISO'ing and whatnot.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2006-03-23 12:37am

Dendrobius wrote:Wouldn't sharing the drive on the DVD equipped computer, then mapping it as a Network Drive on the bereft one work? My memory is hazy about this, but it's a bit less messy than ISO'ing and whatnot.

NO! BECAUSE IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A DVD-ROM DRIVE ON THE OTHER COMPUTER! IT LOOKS LIKE A MAPPED DRIVE! IT WAS JUST WENT OVER IN THIS THREAD.

Netko · Post by **Netko** » 2006-03-24 05:15am

Aaaand here comes the mandatory "Your friend should get a DVD drive or even a burner now since they are 20$ for readers by now" post. I'm kinda surprised he actualy managed to buy a computer decent enough to run Oblivion with only a CD drive. But I hear that is still a problem in the states...

Still surprising since CD and DVD readers basicly started being equal in price (around the aformentioned 20$) a couple of years ago...

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2006-03-24 08:33pm

mmar wrote:Aaaand here comes the mandatory "Your friend should get a DVD drive or even a burner now since they are 20$ for readers by now" post. I'm kinda surprised he actualy managed to buy a computer decent enough to run Oblivion with only a CD drive. But I hear that is still a problem in the states...

Still surprising since CD and DVD readers basicly started being equal in price (around the aformentioned 20$) a couple of years ago...

His computer was built several years ago, and since then he's upgraded different components to keep up with new games. Not everyone goes out and buys a whole new computer when they need to upgrade. In fact Oblivion is the only game that he's wanted that didn't have a CD version.

Netko · Post by **Netko** » 2006-03-25 01:21am

OK, I can understand that. Still surprises me since getting a DVD reader and later burner seems to be the one thing that every upgrader (and by that I mean the traditional bleeding edge gamer steretype as well as several professionals who still run RAGE PRO graphics cards in their machines, as well as everything in between) that I know bought as soon as prices stabilised at a relativly low level. Then again, most of those people have a need for more external storage space then a CD offers so they pretty much jumped at getting a burner as soon as they were available at a resonable price, but even before that a combination of a seperate DVD reader and a CD burner drive was common here for the hardware concious.