CD-RW and DVD burner sharing

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I have a network between two computers through a router. Both computers are sharing a DSL modem. The host is running windows XP and the other computer is running windows ME. I want to share the internal CD-RW and DVD burner in the second computer. Please let me know if it is possible, if so what is procedure
An early reply will be appreciate

Thank
Amand
 
Hi,

I have a network between two computers through a router. Both computers are sharing a DSL modem. The host is running windows XP and the other computer is running windows ME. I want to share the internal CD-RW and DVD burner in the second computer. Please let me know if it is possible, if so what is procedure.
An early reply will be appreciated

Thanks
Amanda

You can share those devices, but they'll be read-only to the other
computers. It isn't possible to share their burning capability over
the network.

Copy the files that you want to burn to the computer that has the
burner, then burn them from the local hard disk.
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