Sharing Dvd+rw Drive In Xp Pro

[LS_Dragons]

OK - for some reason, I cannot enable sharing for the DVD+RW drive in my windows xp system. This system has Roxio CD Creator version 5 installed. On another XP Pro system without Roxio - the CD-RW drive can be shared. Anyone know whether Roxio is causing the problem - or is it the DVD+RW drive?

LS

[Drewdatrip]

LS I think you have been around MSFN long enough to hear about Roxio CD Creator.... and how much crap it is....i would go into the details about what a piece of s***e it is but i have gone on about this topic for a year ...litterally!

Now get over Roxio CD Creator and just install Nero....yes im sure there are ways to make CD Creator work fine, but it seems the the effort is too much esspecilly when a supior product is stairing u in the face.....

IF you dont wanna take my word for it feel free to search around msfn for comments on CD Creator..i dont think you will find too many positive ones...

=Drew

[FthrJACK]

Roxio is fine so long as you only install the burner and the cover designer, on install select "custom" and untick everything apart from those two.

[LS_Dragons]

Drew - I have agreed with you about Nero - but when I got my DVD+RW drive, it wasn't recongnized so I installed Roxio and it was working. Time to go back to Nero I guess.

LS

[LS_Dragons]

Turns out that the problem had to do with XP. There were some files that had been 'staged' by XP to write to a CD-R that did not get deleted. Was able to clear them out and then the drive could be shared again.

LS

[MSNwar]

I had that same problem with Windows staging the files and I was unable to burn with NERO. Took me better part of an hour mucking around the GUI till I figured it out. Forgot how I cleared them. I think I noticed it when I was in control panel but not sure. Anyway, I created a user account just for burning with Roxio and another just for burning with NERO. Keeps things tidy.

[LS_Dragons]

good idea with the 2 user accounts. I have not messed much with user accounts - have an Admin and an LS_Dragons account - both with full privileges. When you have multi users - are programs installed for USER1 available in the start menu for USER2? What are some other things you use it for?

LS

[MSNwar]

When you have multi users - are programs installed for USER1 available in the start menu for USER2?  What are some other things you use it for?

LS

Yes, unless you set it up differently through the Admin Panel. Keep in mind that one of the accounts will not have full privilages. I use fast user switiching. It keeps things tidy.

Some of the other things include games. Since each user account can be setup to use different resolutions and hardware profiles and not all games are compatiable with my optimal settings that comes in handy. Also, when I serve, I have a user account for that with protected folders, etc. But I don't do that to often because I have a seperate PC for serving. Just when I am in a pinch for time. Big hard drives here. LOL.

I also use hard drive trays. When I want to boot to a hard drive with special stuff *cough* I have different user accounts for that to. But each hard drive has a full installtion of XP on it. Say, for serving mails, with customized email accounts.

The great thing about user accounts is you have a lot of options when it comes to software and hardware profiles.