Sender:	kstock AT auspex DOT co DOT fr
Message-ID:	<35ACAEDB.2DDA173E@Auspex.Com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Jul 1998 15:30:03 +0200
From:	Kevin Stock <KStock AT Auspex DOT Com>
Organization:	Auspex CSAT Business Systems
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	Daniel de Haan <Zeron AT mindless DOT com>
CC:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Sharing CD-Rom with Personal Netware
References:	<35A07373 DOT 1CFBAE39 AT Auspex DOT Com> <35A18DE0 DOT 8F8D60B3 AT Mindless DOT com>

Daniel,

Thanks for the reply; this worked perfectly. Sorry I didn't reply
earlier, but I wasn't able to test it sooner due to overwork!

	Kevin

> > After years with DR/Novell/Open-Dos, I've finally equipped my PCs with
> > network cards and installed Personal Netware on them. Everything seems
> > to be working fine, except...
> >
> > One of the reasons I installed it was to br able to access a CD-Rom > from the portable. However, when I try to NET SHARE the CD on the > desktop, it reports that the CD is "not local to this machine" and > refuses to share it. This happens whether I use NWCDEX or MSCDEX to >access the CD.
> >
> > Has anyone else run into this problem. or more importantly, know how > to fix it? This is with the latest Open DR-Dos 7.02.
> 
> This is relativley simple to get around.  on the computer with the
> cd-rom run NET ADMIN, and in the drives section press INSERT to add a
> new drive.  when it asks for the path, give it the dirve letter of the
> CD-ROM.  This is how I did it, file sharing works this way, but
> sometimes programs don't believe it's a CD-ROM, so you need a progran
> called CDEMU2 (available from SIMTEL.)

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