Solved Need help sharing DVD drive

[dtgVA]

Hello...

I have netbook running Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit and a laptop running Vista Home Premium 64bit. The laptop has a DVD drive I would like to share on my wireless network to install software on the netbook. Sharing files and folders have not been a problem, but I can't access the DVD drive from the netbook. I've shared the DVD drive on the laptop and given it full control permission to everyone (only two computers on my home network). The drive shows up on the netbook but when I try to access it I get the error message "Windows cannot access (drive name) You do not have permission to access (drive name). Contact your network administrator to request access." I've rebooted and shutdown a couple of times on both machines and it's still not working. What am I missing? Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[athurschwell]

I have the same problem -- trying to access the DVD drive on my Vista HP desktop from my Windows 7 Toshiba Satellite T115, and getting the identical message despite going through the sharing protocol on the Vista desktop. Any advice?

 

[dtgVA]

I have the same problem -- trying to access the DVD drive on my Vista HP desktop from my Windows 7 Toshiba Satellite T115, and getting the identical message despite going through the sharing protocol on the Vista desktop. Any advice?

Hello athurschwell...

After much trying I wasn't able to share the DVD drive. I posted the same message on the Vista Forum and got several tips on things to try from a gentlemen named Richard. Here's the link: Share DVD drive on wireless network (Group Policy issue?) - Vista Forums

Maybe one of those tips will help you. Report back to let me know if your issue is resolved.

Take care,
dtgVA

 

[Zepher]

Do you have the same username and password on the laptop and the netbook?

 

[athurschwell]

No, different -- does that matter? Would it fix the problem if I did?

 

[aem]

Apart from the Everyone group, have you try putting in the useraccount you log onto the sharing machine with (account you log onto the Laptop with). Might be worth adding the account int he security tab as well.

So basically, noteboot (w7) map to laptop (Vista) DVD drive using the logon of the laptop as credentials.

 

[athurschwell]

Tried, didn't work unfortunately (but I appreciate the help anyway). Added an account username/password to the Vista machine (w/ the DVD drive) that's identical to my Toshiba username/password, but no go. DVD will map to my Z: drive on the Toshiba but otherwise still get the "inaccessible" message. Any further ideas most welcome --
Adam

 

[aem]

File and printer sharing is turned ON?

 

[chev65]

Sharing my DVD drives accross the network works everytime for me on five completely different Homegrouped machines. I can't imagine why it wouldn't work for you, here's what I did. Maybe it's another Vista/Win7 sharing problem but it works with Homegroups everytime. If there is a third party firewall or an A/V software involved then all bets are off on this working.

 

[dtgVA]

Sharing my DVD drives accross the network works everytime for me on five completely different Homegrouped machines. I can't imagine why it wouldn't work for you, here's what I did. Maybe it's another Vista/Win7 sharing problem but it works with Homegroups everytime.

You're right, it should work. That's what making this problem so perplexing. I think as you indicated it's a Vista/Win7 issue. As I mentioned in an earlier post, sharing files, folders and even a printer has not been a problem. It's only been the DVD drive that's giving me the problem. I went through the exact steps as your graphic depicts to share the DVD drive. What a mystery!

dtgVA

 

[chev65]

I wish I could test this out for you, but all my machines are now converted to Win 7 because I wanted to use Homegroups. It might work if you can figure out a way to add the D drive to one of the Public Sharing folders and share the drive from there.

 

[Zepher]

Tried, didn't work unfortunately (but I appreciate the help anyway). Added an account username/password to the Vista machine (w/ the DVD drive) that's identical to my Toshiba username/password, but no go. DVD will map to my Z: drive on the Toshiba but otherwise still get the "inaccessible" message. Any further ideas most welcome --
Adam

All of my machines are now 7, but when I had the 7 RC on my Dell mini and Vista Ultimate on my desktops, I added the username/password from the mini onto my desktop so that I could access the DVD-RW.

If you need a cheap external DVD reader, look for a Microsoft Xbox 360 HD-DVD external drive, should be $30 or so and work great on the netbooks.
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[dtgVA]

SOLVED! Finally!!

Well it's been over 7 months since I started this thread. Let me share what I just discovered today was the problem. Two weeks ago I bought an Asus external DVD burner for my 1201N since I didn't have any initial success sharing the DVD drive on my Gateway laptop. I noticed on my wireless home network I could easily share the Asus drive with the Gateway with no problems at all. Well, with both the 1201N (Win7 32) and the Gateway (Vista 64) I was logged on with administrator rights. HOWEVER, in order to share the internal DVD drive on the Gateway laptop, I have to be logged in on the 1201N with the Win 7 built-in Administrator account. This account is different from one you create that has admin rights. "The built-in Administrator account is an account that has full access and permission on the computer, and will not be prompted by UAC." Here's a link for instructions on enabling and disabling the built-in Admin account. The instructions are the same for Vista. (Thanks Brink!!)

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/50 … tml?filter

Hopes this saves some aggrevation and maybe a few bucks.

 

[chev65]

Well it's been over 7 months since I started this thread. Let me share what I just discovered today was the problem. Two weeks ago I bought an Asus external DVD burner for my 1201N since I didn't have any initial success sharing the DVD drive on my Gateway laptop. I noticed on my wireless home network I could easily share the Asus drive with the Gateway with no problems at all. Well, with both the 1201N (Win7 32) and the Gateway (Vista 64) I was logged on with administrator rights. HOWEVER, in order to share the internal DVD drive on the Gateway laptop, I have to be logged in on the 1201N with the Win 7 built-in Administrator account. This account is different from one you create that has admin rights. "The built-in Administrator account is an account that has full access and permission on the computer, and will not be prompted by UAC." Here's a link for instructions on enabling and disabling the built-in Admin account. The instructions are the same for Vista. (Thanks Brink!!)

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/50 … tml?filter

Hopes this saves some aggrevation and maybe a few bucks.

Thanks for reporting back in dtgVA, I knew about the built in Admin account but havn't had to use it to share anything. I think maybe that turning off UAC might have also fixed the problem but can't say for sure.

One thing for sure is that it's easy to share the D drive between Windows 7 machines but I havn't tested it with Vista yet.

 

[friendlymentor]

Windows 7 sharing of DVD Drives

I had the same problem as several here in trying to share out a DVD drive. However, after setting Everyone as having all permissions, when I tried to get the drive to work from another computer across the network, it refused UNTIL I placed a DVD in the drive. Then the sharing worked fine.