#CD-ROM by remote control
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Has anybody successfully accessed their CD-ROM using remote control
software? I routinely access my office LANtastic network from home using
pcAnywhere 4.5. However, I am unable to access the CD-ROMs connected to our
network. I called Symantec tech support, and they said that their program does
not support CD-ROM device drivers.
I then tried PC Tools Commute. Central Point tech support claims it should
work, but it doesn't.
— EVAN
Evan,
At home I have two PCs as follows:
486 with CDROM drive
286 with Modem and PC Anywhere IV
I boot the 486 first with all the necessary CDROM drivers and then start
LapLink Pro.
The 286 I boot with PC Anywhere in Exit, allow incoming calls mode, so that I'm
left at the DOS prompt.
I can then dial into the 286 and start LapLink Pro. This gets me access to the
486 and the CDROM drive. The only problem I've had is in trying to do file
transfers ie use LapLink to transfer file from CDROM to 286 hard disc, then
file transfer from 286 to the machine I'm calling from. I think it's something
to do with the read-only attribute as if I decompress a file and then
recompress everything using a different filename, the file transfer works! BTW
I've always stopped the LapLink process on the 286 before attempting file
transfers<g>
Adrian
Adrian,
(Does the "[D] stand for Deutschland?]
Thanks for the reply. I don't recall ever hearing about so complicated a
system. Why do you operate that way?
Do you have any special software set-ups that allow you to run CD-ROM
software from a remote location?
— EVAN
Evan,
I'm actually English; I just happen to live in Germany<bg>.
Those 2 PCs are at home. I'm trying to get everything off the 286 so I can just
dedicate that for comms. I also have a problem in that both floppy drives have
decided they don't want to play any more<g>. I'm not sure whether I'll leave it
like that permanently, but it's nice being able to access either PC at home
from somewhere else<bg>
Hmm. Haven't actually tried running any CDROM applications remotely yet. In
theory it should work depending on how much free memory they need.
I run FoxPro (amongst other things) remotely on a Novell network using PC
Anywhere IV (note version 4, not 4.5 at least not yet<g>). Calls me back, does
background file transfers etc. Took a bit of tweaking because of the memory
used by the Novell drivers though.
Adrian
Adrian,
Thanks a lot. I've received a lot of suggestions to try to make this work,
but so far nothing has worked.
— EVAN
Evan,
I can't remember whether you posted your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files.
I used to have my CDROM drive on the same PC as the modem and never had any
problems accessing it. Maybe I've still got copies of my old AUTOEXEC and
CONFIG files somewhere.
Adrian
Adrian,
I haven't posted my AUTOEXEC and CONFIG files. I wouldn't know which of the
three computers to post them for. If you think that your files might contain a
line or lines of interest I'd like to see them.
— EVAN
Evan,
OK, here are my files from the 286 ie when the CDROM was still attached there:
REM AWHCDROM.BAT
boot /l
:lprompt
C:\scsi\mscdex /d:NECCD /m:10 /l:R /v
PATH = C:\;C:\DOS;C:\BIN;;c:\reboot;c:\scsi
:law403c
d:
cd \aw403c
awhost -m=a
cd \pcanywh\receive
prompt $e[1m$e[44m*$e[41m__$e[40m $p$g <– Texas flag <g>
cls
REM AWHCDROM.SYS
device=c:\dos\himem.sys
dos=high
DEVICEhigh=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE <— only necessary if not using MSCDEX 2.21
lastdrive=z
DEVICEHIGH=c:\scsi\neccdr.sys /d:NECCD
devicehigh=c:\drivers\nansi.sys
SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS\ /E:500 /p
files=99
buffers=30
Note: I've got PC Anywhere 4.03c and NOT version 4.5. Also note, no Windoze<g>
If this doesn't help, then I'll post the new versions where I have the CDROM on
the 486 and PC Anywhere on the 286.
Adrian