#CD-Rom on Network?
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We just purchased a CD Porta-Drive from CD Technology. We would like to make
it available to all users on our LAN but get a cannot share network device
when we try to. What do we need to do? All help greatly appreciated.
Tech. Info
We are using the CD Porta-Drive attached to an IBM AT set up to be a Server
using Microsoft's Local Area Network Program V1.32. The CD Rom appears as
logical drive E: to the PC. It currently has DOS 3.0 but we can upgrade to
DOS 5.0 if it would make a difference although my current impression is that
it won't unless I need to get special drivers that require 5.0.
Thanks again
Bill R.
You need a recent version of the MSCDEX driver (I think 2.21 is the latest)
and add the switch /S at the end of the line that loads it.
>You need a recent version of the MSCDEX driver (I think 2.21 is the latest)
>and add the switch /S at the end of the line that loads it.
>
We have version 2.23 I think is what it displayed and we did use the /S
parameter but it appears that the version of DOS must be greater then version
3.30. After changing it to DOS 5.0 it worked like a charm. Thanks for your
assistance. After reading your message, I wanted to know what the /S was for
so I downloaded the MSCDEX file from the MSDR forum. This file explains all
the command line parameters. In it was a blurb mentioning the the /S alters
the operating system to all the CD ROM to be shared on a network. That's what
made me decide to try upgrading the systems DOS and ultimately got the CD ROM
on-line. Thanks once again.
Bill R.
If you need a CD-ROM networking product for the MS LAN NOS, the OPTI-NET
for DOS solution offers the highest levels of compatibility, performance,
and functionality using the NetBIOS protocol.
Chris
Online Computer Systems
(800) 922-9204 / (301) 428-3700
What do you think the best solution is for a Novell (3.11) network?