Share DVD ROM drive & CD Writer to other clients

[Matt]

Are the members all running XP? My network runs XP Pro
and works fine even with sharing many different drives.
Different versions of Windows support networks
differently.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a peer to peer network at home and would like to
share my DVD ROM
>drive and CD Writer to other members on the LAN. I have
shared hard disks
>successfully but not on these two device. I can see all
drives on other pcs
>but cannot access the contents of disk. Can someone
tell me how to do it on
>Windows XP Pro.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ray
>
>
>.
>

[Ray]

No, one of Windows XP Home Edition, one of Windows ME and one of Windows 98.

Ray

"Matt" > wrote in message
...
> Are the members all running XP? My network runs XP Pro
> and works fine even with sharing many different drives.
> Different versions of Windows support networks
> differently.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I have a peer to peer network at home and would like to
> share my DVD ROM
> >drive and CD Writer to other members on the LAN. I have
> shared hard disks
> >successfully but not on these two device. I can see all
> drives on other pcs
> >but cannot access the contents of disk. Can someone
> tell me how to do it on
> >Windows XP Pro.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Ray
> >
> >
> >.
> >