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Mon 29 Nov, 2004 08:20 am
Hey guys ...
Is it possible to make "Device with Removable Storage" from a computer on my network ?
* The story is : my bro got DVD rom for his pc wich is located in the same network with me , the problem is that when i start some DVD program it suppos to load the DVD film right away , but since its not a local drive it just wont , i tried to load it manualy... still nothing.
I was sitting on this problem for like 2 hours and after lots of trying i decided to ask help from the inet , so here i am asking u for ur help, to tell me how i make a NetWork IDE drive to be a virtual local device (i think its the last thing that way work), still if u know another way i whould be grateful if u whould share it with me ...
Thanking you in anticipation...
FOX
Microsoft: How to connect and disconnect a network drive in Windows XP
Harvard: How to map a network drive, a pretty simple-to-follow tutorial with graphics.
Note too that the required playback application must be installed on the accessing machine.
Well , thx for the help but i already tried it and it doesnt supports autorun so this option isnt working for DVD rom as well..
Like u can see in this pic there is special icon for Network device comper to the local device, the question is : is it possible to make Network device like it was ur own pc device ?
FOX
No, there is no way in having a Network drive autorun on your machine, because autorun only works on a local device.
If you install some DVD playing software you could default the software to look to that networked drive if the software supports it. I'm not sure if PowerDVD can do this or not.
Give it a try
Yeah, AutoRun wouldn't work, but I have no problem reading from or writing to any of the drives on any of the machines on my network from any of the other machines. If I pull up DVD playback software on one machine and direct it to play a DVD on another machine's DVD drive, it works OK ... little choppy sometimes, dependin' on the machines involved, but it works.
Well , this 1 isnt working for me as well , lets say my network drive is Z , now whem in going to some DVD player i cant chose Z cose its only network device ... however i know its possible to play DVD films from Windows media player and adding new devices manualy , but it asks for some SP2 for win XP or something which is very big and im not realy sure its what gonna solve the problem , and BTW i wasnt talking about making Network drive to be autoruned but to make my bro's Driver E:\ (DVD rom) like it was my own local device ... i know its possible ... but how
no clue ...
FOX
The only way you could remotely make a networked drive part of you 'local' devices is if you had some software that created a virtual drive on your machine, then mirror what was on the networked drive.
I have never come accross any software that will do this.
I know of software that will create a virtual drive and load IMAGES... but I don't know of any virtual drive software that loads networked drives.
Otherwise, you're stuck with networking the drive and trying to find some DVD software that can access networked data.
Snowlock wrote:The only way you could remotely make a networked drive part of you 'local' devices is if you had some software that created a virtual drive on your machine, then mirror what was on the networked drive.
Universal Plug-n-Play (UPnP) is a device discovery and control protocol for IP networks which lets PCs & other devices advertise and offer their services to network clients. It's a bit ahead of its time, but Windows XP already has built in support for it.
www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/evaluate/upnpxp.mspx
www.upnp.org
ATI has an application called "Easyshare" that is designed to do pretty much exactly what you are looking for. I have a copy that came with the TV Tuner card I bought - not sure if it is available seperately. It might be worth looking around on their WWW site for a copy.
Even with that it won't start the DVD automatically when you insert one. Anyone on the network can view the DVDs though.
Nice softwar by ATi i must say , very impresive ... didnt find free copy yet but ill keep searching
Thx to every1 for their help ...
FOX
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