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 Organization: Auspex CSAT Business Systems MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel de Haan 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk 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.) -- Kevin Stock ><> Tel: +33 1 42 04 91 50 kstock AT auspex DOT com Fax: +33 1 42 04 91 51 Technical Information Specialist VMail: +1 408 566 2000 x3563 Auspex Systems Inc. Personal Email: kstock AT unforgettable DOT com