Accessing A Hardwear CD Drive Via Network

[BadgerBrian]

We have domain administrator privelages,
we have shared local cdrom drives with all users
all permissions are set to read/write/etc
from my computer i map into the other admins cd drive on the network shares,
when i go to explore the cd we cannot access it......

we did however prep our domain controllers for update to win 2003 - so all the active directory and forrest hasd been changed.



we can however on the same computer we have virtual drives and are able to access them without any problems.

 

[ShackDaddy]

Do you have any trouble accessing standard shares?

Is your network on TCP/IP, or is it running another protocol?

Are the CD-drives standard, or are they CD-RW?

ShackDaddy

 

[ShackDaddy]

BTW, there's also a local security policy that could be preventing the CD access: "Devices: Restrict CD-ROM access to locally logged-on users." By default it's disabled, although a domain-wide policy might be in place to enable that policy setting.

ShackDaddy

 

[BadgerBrian]

checked the local and network security settings - and its disabled on both - all other sharing works fine between a large network - its just that local cd rom drives are not accessable - however local virtual cdro drives are accessable