Remote Disc Problems

[YosemiteSam81]

Good Afternoon Everyone,

My buddy got a new Macbook Air and we were trying to get Remote Disc to work.

As the instructions state you should be able to turn it on with System Preferences>Sharing>Check "DVD or CD Sharing"

Well, I do not have the option to click DVD or CD Sharing. The Apple Support site says to download a file if the option is not available but when I do download it and try to install, it says that my computer has a newer version of the software already.

Anybody have any idea how to get this working?

We both have late 2011 Model Air's running OSX 10.7.3.

Please let me know if I can provide anymore useful information to help get this solved. Thanks in advance!

 

[thankins]

Good Afternoon Everyone,

My buddy got a new Macbook Air and we were trying to get Remote Disc to work.

As the instructions state you should be able to turn it on with System Preferences>Sharing>Check "DVD or CD Sharing"

Well, I do not have the option to click DVD or CD Sharing. The Apple Support site says to download a file if the option is not available but when I do download it and try to install, it says that my computer has a newer version of the software already.

Anybody have any idea how to get this working?

We both have late 2011 Model Air's running OSX 10.7.3.

Please let me know if I can provide anymore useful information to help get this solved. Thanks in advance!

Ummm the MacBook Air you have doesn't have a DVD drive so you can't share it. Or are you referring to the USB Superdrive?

 

[Cynicalone]

Just go to the computer with the optical drive you want to use and turn on CD/DVD sharing. Then it will show up in Finder under Devices on your MacBook Air.

Like this...

 

[YosemiteSam81]

Just go to the computer with the optical drive you want to use and turn on CD/DVD sharing. Then it will show up in Finder under Devices on your MacBook Air.

Like this...

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I feel like such an idiot. As soon as I read your comment it clicked. I did not have my SuperDrive plugged in, I had my external! Haha

Got it working! Thanks for the input guys.