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Apr 23, 2018 Setting up Remote Sharing on Mac Tap on the Apple Menu symbol on the Mac that has an optical drive Click on System Preferences Tap on Sharing Mark the box for the option DVD or CD Sharing If you will like to secure your content, mark the box for the option Ask me before allowing others to use my DVD. In the Sharing menu, click the tickbox next to DVD or CD Sharing, which should turn the status circle on the page for that function green.The same page also has a tickbox for Ask me before. An alternative, to accessing the Mac's optical drive from Windows PC machine, would be to create an.iso file to use on the Windows machine. The steps are given below. Use the optical drive on the Mac to create an.iso file from the CD/DVD. See Mac OS X: Best Way to Make an ISO from a CD or DVD. Now, on the Mac that has the media drive (ie. Not your MacBook Air), launch System Preferences, select Sharing, and in the Sharing window enable the DVD or CD Sharing option. By default the Ask Me. Apr 05, 2013 Canon 60D Unboxing: Download to PC: Terminal 1: defaults write com.apple.Network.

The MacBook Air and Mac mini have no optical drives. You can get an external drive for $79, or you can share the optical drive on another Mac on your network. Learn how CD and DVD drive sharing works.

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Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. On today's episode, let's look at how to share DVD or CD between two Macs. So if you have a MacBook Air or one of the new Mac Mini's, you don't have an optical drive. Now, if you need to use DVDs or CDs, one solution is to buy the $79 external optical drive that will work on one of these. Another option is to share a CD or DVD with another Mac on your network. So say you have an iMac and you have a MacBook Air. The MacBook Air can access the optical disk in the iMac. Let me show you how. So here I am on my Mac Pro and I'm going to go to ‘System Preferences' and in there I'm going to go over to 'Sharing'. This is where you will find things like ‘File Sharing' and ‘Screen Sharing'. Now just like that, you will also find DVD or CD sharing. You can see I have it selected here so I can see the options I have turned on. And I can choose whether I need to be asked before someone else* uses that drive. You can turn it on or off, it's your preference. So once you have all that set up, a disk inserted into this Mac Pro or into an iMac, whatever you're using would be available to other Macs on the network. Now what I've done is that I've put the iWork DVD into my Mac Pro. Now here I am over my MacBook Air and in the finder here, in the ‘Finder' Window, I can see on the left that got devices, that's got* other things like say, ‘ iDisk'. But I also have ‘Remote Disc' that appears there, both these missing from the same network. So the ‘Air' or the Mac [xx]* these remote discs. I selected and I can see that under the ‘Remote Disc' I have got my computer there. I will double click it to go in there and, it will have a little thing here in the upper right. You can see right there ‘Ask to use' and yes, I will ‘Ask to use' that. Now, if I switch back over to my Mac Pro, I can see here I've got this dialog box window here that says, 'Gary Rosenzweig' on 'Gary's MacBook Air' would like to use your DVD drive. So I hit ‘Accept'. You can see there I've got the iWork DVD inserted in. So now I'm going to go back to my Air here and you can see it has allowed me to have access to the ‘iWork '09 Install DVD'. I can go into that and will access the drive remotely and there I can see the iWork installed, that's on the optical drive on the other computer on my network. Now one thing you can do is burn a DVD or CD, across the network on another machine. But, there's really no need to do that. Of course if you have a machine and your* iMac with the drive in it, just use that to burn the data. You can copy data across the network and put it in a burned folder there or simply create a disk image instead of burning something using the disk utility and then take that disk image, move it to a machine that has a drive and burn the disk image using disk utility. So there's the look at sharing CDs and DVDs across your Macs comes in very handy now with the new MacBook Airs and MacMinis. And of course like I said, another really good option is only $79 and you can get yourself an external drive. Perhaps in the future, you might see most Macs without an optical drive use less and less and the $79 option might be the only option for people if they don't happen to have a Mac with an optical drive. Till next time, this is Gary with MacMost Now.

Caitlin writes: I love, love love my new MacBook Air, but it only just dawned on me that it doesn’t have a DVD drive. Do I need to buy another piece of hardware to play/open a DVD?

Hi Caitlin! Apple does, indeed, sell a so-called “SuperDrive” ($80) that’ll connect to your Air’s USB port, and there are also several third-party gadget manufacturers that offer MacBook-compatible CD/DVD optical drives for as little as $50.

You can share a DVD drive on a Mac or PC with an optical drive-less Mac thanks to the Remote Disc feature.

But here’s the thing: you don’t necessarily need to cough up more money just to access the occasional DVD- or CD-ROM.

The MacBook Air (as well as other optical drive-less Macs, such as the Mac Mini and the new “retina” MacBooks) comes with a feature called “Remote Disc,” which lets you wirelessly borrow the optical drive of almost any nearby Mac or PC.

If you want to share a Mac’s DVD drive, all you need to do is tweak a few settings. On the Windows side, you’ll need to download a small (and free) utility; once that’s done, though, the process is almost exactly the same as it is on a Mac.

It’s a nifty, money-saving feature, but there are a few of downsides:

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• You can only access data CDs and DVDs that aren’t copy protected—in other words, no audio CDs or video DVDs, and no copy-protected game discs;
• You can’t burn a DVD or CD;
• Because Remote Disc works its magic over Wi-Fi, data transfers will be somewhat slower than they would over a USB-connected or built-in disk drive.

So, ready to open a DVD with Remote Disc? Let’s get started…

Just open the Sharing preferences panel to share your Mac’s DVD drive.

With two Macs:

• First, make sure your MacBook Air (or other drive-less Mac) and the Mac with the drive you’d like to share are both connected to the same local Wi-Fi network (like your home network).
• On the Mac with the optical drive, click the Apple menu, select System Preferences, then click the Sharing icon.
• Check the box marked “DVD or CD Sharing.” You may also want to check the box labeled “Ask before allowing others to use my DVD drive” if you’re sharing your drive over a public Wi-Fi network.
• Now, go to your MacBook Air, open a new Finder window (click the desktop, then click File, New Finder Window), then find and click Remote Disc in the sidebar (you should see it under the Devices heading).
• You should see a Mac icon labeled with a username (such as “benpatt,” in my case). Click the icon, and the name of any DVD or CD sitting in the remote Mac’s optical drive should appear.
• Click the remote drive (you may have to click “Ask to use” if the “Ask before allowing others to use my DVD drive” setting is enabled), and voilà—the contents of the disc should pop into view. Go ahead and double-click or drag-and-drop files as you normally would.

Yep, the Mac’s Remote Disc feature works on Windows PCs, too.

With a Mac and a PC:

• Want to borrow the optical drive on a Windows PC? No problem. First, you’ll need to install Apple’s “DVD or CD Sharing Update for Windows”; just visit this page, click the blue Download button, then follow the instructions.
• All set? Open the Windows Control Panel, click the Hardware and Sound heading, then click DVD or Sharing Options.
• Check the box labeled “Enable DVD or CD Sharing” (and, optionally, the “Ask me before allowing others to use my DVD drive” setting).
• Make sure both your PC and your Mac are connected to the same local Wi-Fi network, then insert a disk into your PC’s optical drive.
• From here, you can follow the same steps as above (starting with the fourth step) to remotely access the DVD or CD in your PC’s optical drive from your Mac.

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