Shared DVD Drive

[Muhnamana]

Ok so I'm beginning to think this can't be done but I need some help.

I am sharing my CD/DVD+R drive on my Windows XP machine. I am trying to access this drive from my Vista machine. I want to be able to drag files from my Vista machine and burn them using the XP DVD drive.

Can this be done? I have sharing enabled and receive an error that the drive is not accessible and an incorrect function.

 

[johnb35]

You won't be able to do that. Whatever you need burned just copy the file to your xp machine and burn it that way using a burning program.

 

[lawson_jl]

Does your Vista computer not have a CD/DVD burner? I'm curious as to why your using your XP machine to burn stuff?

 

[Muhnamana]

Does your Vista computer not have a CD/DVD burner? I'm curious as to why your using your XP machine to burn stuff?

Well I upgraded my XP machine to Vista which had a burner up until last week and the thing can't write to discs but can read them.

So I have another machine which has XP networked and thought I could use that one instead of swapping them out. Its a piece of shit machine, mainly for storage but I can't even install the software for the drive either. Oh well.