Enabling Remote Disc on not-Airs

Or....you can just go into "Sharing" under system preferences and choose "DVD or CD sharing"

 

I believe that only covers one part of the equation. This would allow you to actually use a shared disk...on other macs other than the MacBook Air.

 

Is there a way to find out if this command worked? I don't see any remote disks on my school network.

 

What do I install on my windows machine in order to use this?

 

Lol! fenchurch, hotblack, zaphod....I see your a fan of the Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy

Your missing FordPrefect!

 

BTW, it appears to work without rebooting, I simply relaunched the Finder and it came right up.

jW

 

I wouldn't name your server hotblack....unless it is truly on death support .

 

cool, works with just a restart.



edit--much later-- I mean just a finder restart.

 

Aloha everyone,

Has anyone successfully played a movie on the client using Remote Disc? I tried to do just that today - loaded a movie in my iMac to play on my MacBook Pro - but no joy. I was able to read from both a CD and a DVD, however, but have yet to attempt a write test.

How far have any of you gotten thus far? Also, for those of you who have the MacBook Air, can you play a movie on the Air via Remote Disc on a 2nd Mac? I'm interested in finding the limits of Remote Disc.

HawaiiMacAddict

 

Anyone know how to get this going in 10.5.5? Since I upgraded, my remote disc doesn't work anymore... (on my not-air).

 

It's just not showing up at all. It was working fine before, but now... no dice. Remote sharing is on on my min and MBP, but the not-air doesn't see anything anymore.

 

Doesn't work for me either...

on my non-Air.

Running 10.5.5

BP

 

i can see the remote disc but the problem is that i am left just with a "waiting for disc" screen. Is it just my slow wifi?

 

I know this is an old thread, but I just wanted to say that I got a refurbished Nvidia Mac mini and it had remote disc enabled by default. It can see discs I put in my iMac and MacBook. I have no idea why this is since I have a SuperDrive in it already. Still cool if not very useful to me.

 

Hey guys,

Been scouring the internet forever for this, just wanted to let you all know this still works.

Make sure the "ODS" line in terminal is a capital O and not a zero.

Cheers!

 

How do i get rid of it

how do i get rid of the remote disk
it stays on my mac even though dvd/cd sharing is turned off

 

I also hate to resurrect a dead thread, but I'd like to know this too. I had an iMac that had a dead optical drive, enabled this to serve as a stopgap measure, and when I did a Mac-to-Mac transfer with my new computer, it came along for the ride. I tried swapping 'false' for 'true' and entering the two Terminal commands to no avail. And strangely enough, I have the little arrow in the upper right corner on the iMac but not on my MacBookPro, when it has the Terminal commands inputted to enable sharing. I've also cycled sharing on and off and rebooted in between on both machines, and I still have it only on the iMac and not on the MacBookPro.

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

You might want to try deleting the keys entirely.

Code:

defaults delete [I]Preference.Name PreferenceKey[/I]

 

I'd like to report that as of 10.6.7, ODSSupported is unnecessary – just enabling EnableODiskBrowsing is enough.

And here's a tip on how to get rid of "Remote Disc" in the sidebar:

1. open com.apple.sidebarlists.plist in Property List Editor (comes with Xcode) or your favourite plist editor
2. expand systemitems and VolumesList nodes
3. find the node that corresponds to Remote Disc (typically the last one)
4. add a string item "Visibility" = "NeverVisible"
5. save and log out.

After following these steps you can still access Remote Disc by going to Computer (⇧⌘C) and selecting "Remote Disc".