Paragon Net Burner

Paragon Net Burner - Share an optical drive in a computer network

If you are using a netbook, make sure you do not have an optical drive (help read or write CD / DVD) integrated. Of course, you can still equip an optical drive to communicate via USB for netbooks if you often have to read or write CD / DVD, otherwise if the demand for optical discs is not much and your computer network. If you already have one or more computers equipped with an optical drive, you can easily share it easily through the free Net Burner 2.0 utility.

After downloading Net Burner to your computer, you need to install this utility on a computer with an optical drive to share and on your netbook. When installing Net Burner on a machine with an optical drive, you need to select the Server installation option in the Select Components window. Similarly, on netbooks, you will select the Client installation option.

After installation is complete, you start Net Burner from the netbook, at this time, the program will proceed to detect the existing optical drive on the computer, if not found, it will conduct a search from the computer network. netbook is connecting.

When the search is completed, Net Burner will display the list of computers sharing the optical drive in the network and include the IP address and port of that machine (of course only the computers installed Net Burner with Server installation option). You just need to select the computer with the optical drive to use from this list and then click Next to confirm. At this point, Windows will automatically add the optical drive icon to the netbook's My Computer as a local drive.

That's it, now, you can use this optical drive normally as a shared drive over the network, besides, you can also manage these optical drives via an output menu. displayed when clicking the Net Burner icon in the system tray.

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