Sharing a CD Drive on a home network

I have a laptop w/o a CD drive and I would like to use the drive on another laptop that has WIN XP Pro. I followed all the directions for sharing and the non-CD laptop does see the CD Drive on the other computer but access to it seems to be blocked because of permission. I have checked all the permission boxes but it still does not work. Anyone have any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks.

 

Can you clarify how you came to this conclusion.
Was there an error message? Or, what other behavior occurred?

 

The normal procedure for sharing the drive would be to open Windows Explorer on the computer with the CD ROM drive and right click on the drive (eg CDROM Drive D), then select sharing from the drop down menu and share the drive. Both machines must be on the same network (same name). This should then permit access to the CDROM drive from the machine with no CDROM drive.

If this is how you went about it then Eric Robinson's questions certainly need to be answered before doing anything else.

 

Here is the message:

\bobby\d is not accessible. You might not have permission to use the network resources. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permission.
The network path was not found.

I am the administrator on both computers and the laptop w/o CD does see the CD on the other laptop in its windows explorer.

 

Do you have file and printer sharing enabled?

 

I have a network printer which works on the laptop w/o the CD and file sharing has been enabled.

 

Try turning off all security on both computers momentarily. For example, if you have Norton Internet Security and Windows Firewall on, disable them. Then try your connection. If it works, you security application(s) need to be configured to allow the connection.

 

Don't mean to nose in here but I was wondering if ackerberg had mapped the network drive on the other computer?

 

Eric,
I will try that.

Mitchell,
I do not understand what that entails? Could you please elaborate on how I do that?
Thanks.

 

Check this link. You shouldn't have to map the drive, I was just tossing in an idea to try.