Mapped network drive appear as CD?

[Robertio]

Is there a way of having a mapped network drive appear to W2k as a second CD drive?

 

[iwasinnamuknow]

no. win2k will only recognise a cd drive if it is directly connected. i have been working on this same thing for a couple on months

 

[pbxman]

Is this a goal of yours, or a problem you'd like to correct?

Im interested in hearing a reason for wanting to do this, or if it is a problem you're trying to get rid of.

Post back if you could, and I'll try to help.


Pbxman
Systems Administrator

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[iwasinnamuknow]

i think he/she wants to map a drive to a cd drive shared on the netwrok and have the client box think it is a cd instead of a mapping

 

[Robertio]

Thanks for the replies, it is nothing particularly important, the way the office is layed out my pc is behind a book case, which I have to move out the way in order to get to the cd drive.
Running any software that runs a check to see if the cd is present means moving the bookcase... so I was just trying to find a way of making Windows think of the CD drive on a colleagues pc / a pathed partician on my own pc (where I can copy the cd contents to) as a local cd drive.

As I said it is nothing important, just trying to save myself all this exercise

BTW, I'm a he

Thanks

 

[Zelandakh]

R, depending on the CD it is possible.

Some CDs check whether the drive is a removeable drive (you can't fool it), others check for a particular file on the root on the installation drive.

If it is the latter, just map a drive to your friends CD drive (E for instance) and you are away.

I do this on a regular basis on E for Win9x drivers for HDs of 1GB. MS software - so gullible.