Sharing DVD Roms

[big_green_jelly_bean]

I have 2 computers hooked up on a Gigabyte Network. One is running Windows Media Center, the other XP64

I would like both computers to be able to access each others DVD-ROM's

However normal sharing is not enough. i would like them to look and act like local DVD-Roms. Is this possible, if so what software should I use, and is there an OpenSource or Freeware solution.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Mike

[unskinnyboy]

Sharing them as normal drives is the first step. But if your plan is to watch movies, PowerDVD or WinDVD can play movies off mapped drives. Also, VideoLAN. Set up a video cast on the first PC and then stream it over the LAN to the second PC.

[big_green_jelly_bean]

Sharing them as normal drives is the first step. But if your plan is to watch movies, PowerDVD or WinDVD can play movies off mapped drives. Also, VideoLAN. Set up a video cast on the first PC and then stream it over the LAN to the second PC.

Yuck... player dependent solutions.

Power DVD is ok, I use classic multimedia player. Problem I have is that it doesn't disable my screen saver during playback of videos. Power DVD doesn't re-enable it sometimes. Streaming sounds really cool, extremely complex, and not compatable with windows media center.

The real problem is that I have this movie that I made a backup of, and it only plays on some DVD's players (not my media center). Ahh well, I will have to look for a way to automatically control the screen saver with windows media player classic.

Mike