Share a DVD Burner on Vista PC

My main/first goal is to back up my "XP PC" onto DVDs using the DVD burner on
the new PC that has Vista. I am fairly certain that is possible as soon as I
figure out how to successfully "share the DVD drive".

We are leave for a week vacation Wednesday morning so if I fail to reply for
a week, now you know why.

Thanks!!
--
Dale


"Tim" wrote:

> What is your goal? Are you sharing the burner to read/copy files from a
> CD/DVD or are you trying to burn disks remotely from the XP machine?
>
> Tim
>
> "Dale" <Dale.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3ACF53BD-A746-4881-B725-41A2F43D9766@microsoft.com...
> >I am trying to share my DVD burner on my new Vista machine with my
> >networked
> > Windows XP machine. I think I successfully "shared" it from the Vista
> > PC.
> >
> > When I try to access it from the XP machine via my network, I get the
> > message "DVD Drive is not accessible. You might not have permissions to
> > use
> > this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find
> > out
> > if you have access permissions. The device is not ready".
> >
> > The DVD burner works fine on the host PC.
> >
> > What could be wrong?
> >
> > Thanks!!
> >
> > Dale
>

You can certainly backup a PC to a DVD burner, assuming you have software to
do that (Nero, etc). However, I know of no software that will write to a DVD
burner on a shared machine...I think they all have to be local.

You could always move that drive to the XP box temporarily to do the backup.

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

"Dale" <Dale.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FA978BD2-BEF9-4A17-BC1B-D5EEFECBA26C@microsoft.com...
> My main/first goal is to back up my "XP PC" onto DVDs using the DVD burner
> on
> the new PC that has Vista. I am fairly certain that is possible as soon
> as I
> figure out how to successfully "share the DVD drive".
>
> We are leave for a week vacation Wednesday morning so if I fail to reply
> for
> a week, now you know why.
>
> Thanks!!
> --
> Dale
>
>
> "Tim" wrote:
>
>> What is your goal? Are you sharing the burner to read/copy files from a
>> CD/DVD or are you trying to burn disks remotely from the XP machine?
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> "Dale" <Dale.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:3ACF53BD-A746-4881-B725-41A2F43D9766@microsoft.com...
>> >I am trying to share my DVD burner on my new Vista machine with my
>> >networked
>> > Windows XP machine. I think I successfully "shared" it from the Vista
>> > PC.
>> >
>> > When I try to access it from the XP machine via my network, I get the
>> > message "DVD Drive is not accessible. You might not have permissions to
>> > use
>> > this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find
>> > out
>> > if you have access permissions. The device is not ready".
>> >
>> > The DVD burner works fine on the host PC.
>> >
>> > What could be wrong?
>> >
>> > Thanks!!
>> >
>> > Dale
>>

Agreed...you cannot burn to a remote burner. Moving the DVD burner to the XP
machine is a good idea...unless you still want to burn DVDs on the Vista
machine. You could purchase another DVD burner. They aren't that expensive
these days (of course, that's a relative thing).

Otherwise, I think you're sharing the wrong devices. Share the hard drive on
the XP machine, mount that drive share on the Vista machine, and backup the
mounted drive on the Vista machine's DVD burner.

Tim

"Dana Cline - MVP" <dcline DeleteThis @scriptpro.com> wrote in message
news:u2bPyuUnHHA.5032@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> You can certainly backup a PC to a DVD burner, assuming you have software
> to do that (Nero, etc). However, I know of no software that will write to
> a DVD burner on a shared machine...I think they all have to be local.
>
> You could always move that drive to the XP box temporarily to do the
> backup.
>
> Dana Cline - MCE MVP
>
> "Dale" <Dale DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FA978BD2-BEF9-4A17-BC1B-D5EEFECBA26C@microsoft.com...
>> My main/first goal is to back up my "XP PC" onto DVDs using the DVD
>> burner on
>> the new PC that has Vista. I am fairly certain that is possible as soon
>> as I
>> figure out how to successfully "share the DVD drive".
>>
>> We are leave for a week vacation Wednesday morning so if I fail to reply
>> for
>> a week, now you know why.
>>
>> Thanks!!
>> --
>> Dale
>>
>>
>> "Tim" wrote:
>>
>>> What is your goal? Are you sharing the burner to read/copy files from a
>>> CD/DVD or are you trying to burn disks remotely from the XP machine?
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>> "Dale" <Dale DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:3ACF53BD-A746-4881-B725-41A2F43D9766@microsoft.com...
>>> >I am trying to share my DVD burner on my new Vista machine with my
>>> >networked
>>> > Windows XP machine. I think I successfully "shared" it from the
>>> > Vista
>>> > PC.
>>> >
>>> > When I try to access it from the XP machine via my network, I get the
>>> > message "DVD Drive is not accessible. You might not have permissions
>>> > to
>>> > use
>>> > this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to
>>> > find
>>> > out
>>> > if you have access permissions. The device is not ready".
>>> >
>>> > The DVD burner works fine on the host PC.
>>> >
>>> > What could be wrong?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks!!
>>> >
>>> > Dale
>>>
>
>