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Enable mounting of remote CD/DVDs on any Mac
Authored by: leamanc on Jan 26, '09 11:23:47AM

Like others, I'm puzzled as to why the Terminal commands are needed. It seems like this has worked simply by enabling CD/DVD Sharing on both machines.

But if the commands are needed, I don't think a reboot would be required after entering them. If they were system-level items, sudo would be required to issue the commands. I bet relaunching the Finder or simply logging out and logging back in would do the trick.



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Enable mounting of remote CD/DVDs on any Mac
Authored by: Hodag on Jan 26, '09 12:57:26PM

This works perfectly. And yes, all you have to do to finish enabling is to re-launch the Finder. Tested on my '06 MBP.

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Enable mounting of remote CD/DVDs on any Mac
Authored by: Anonymous on Jan 26, '09 01:08:53PM

I haven't tried this, and I don't have an Air; but obviously, the Air has this enabled by default.

The reason you need to enable it? Probably because Apple has decided you don't need to do this.

Maybe it's something to do with licensing codecs, but the lack of gapless playback on the older Ipods, copy/paste on the Iphone, third party Mag"safe" PSUs, and 15" Powerbooks with screens a graphic designer can use, I'd say it's the former, rather than the latter.

I can just imagine an Apple exec reading this post and screaming at the monitor "But those are our secret codes! He doesn't need to do this! He could just replace the drive!"

Same as the post I found on another blog that detailed how to resurrect my HP printer. "But! But those are our secret codes! Why couldn't he just buy a new printer!?"



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Hint is right; I was wrong
Authored by: leamanc on Jan 26, '09 06:33:44PM

Now that I am home, I decided to test this out.

CD/DVD Sharing installed from MacBook Air DVD on my MDD G4, running Tiger.

CD/DVD Sharing enabled on new unibody MacBook Pro 15", running (obviously) Leopard.

The G4's remote DVD did not show up until running the Terminal commands. Sorry for questioning the hint, but I thought I had gotten it to work before simply by enabling DVD/CD Sharing on both machines.

And, as I suspected and confirmed by two posts above, a relaunch of the Finder is all that is needed to enable Remote Disc browsing in the Finder (once the Terminal commands have been entered).



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