Virtual CDROM software

[bofhrevenge2]

I know this is cheap of me but I’m in search is some free or inexpensive virtual CD software, we have some at the moment that allows me to mirror a CD onto a network drive and share it to lots of users. Unfortunately it isn't Win2k compatible and the popular virtual CD software is thousands and I only use it for a couple of CD's that just won't work otherwise (Yes I have a site licence).

Does anyone successfully use a cheap or free version of this?

Thanks.

 

[jrbarnett]

http://www.virtualcd-online.com/

This one doesn't look that expensive, but actual cost depends on the number of clients that you want to be able to simultaneously connect.

John

 

[bofhrevenge2]

Yeh i have looked at this one and it's a reasonable price untill you need 300 clients.

Cheers tho.

 

[jrbarnett]

Can you not just copy the contents of the CD up to a network share and use that? Give it read only for everybody share permissions, as a CD would be in real life?

John

 

[bofhrevenge2]

With most i do but some just refuse to work.

 

[helliphikneau]

why don't you just put the cd that you want to share in the drive, open the explorer, share the drive unlimited with read for evertbody.

hope this helps

 

[bofhrevenge2]

A single CD drive doesn't serve 30 connections at the same time very well, also i don't have a server with 3 drives permanently available.