Share a Mac Superdrive to Windows
While I'm able to share Mac folders and drives to my Windows machine, I can't seem to figure out how to share my Superdrive to Windows. Under the sharing options in system preferences, I do have "DVD or CD sharing' selected but when I connect to the Mac machine from Windows, only the shared files and folders show up and not the DVD drive. I'm running Mavericks 10.9 on the Mac and Windows 8.1 on the PC.
Robert Retzer
The external drive super drive may be formatted differently and windows is unable to recognize what format the documents are on this drive. Although Mac can read a Fat32 or a NTFS file system, a windows machine is not able to read media that is formated with a mac file system.
Read the following article to explain why a windows machine can not read mac media http://www.mediafour.com/macdrive101whydoineedmacdrive
ASKER
Just to clarify, I'm not hooking up the Superdrive to the Windows machine - the Superdrive is connected to the Mac machine and it's being shared on the network. I understand that Windows can't read a Mac formatted drive but it can and does read/write Mac folders and files that are shared on the network without problem except for the DVD drive.
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Perfect solution - exactly what I needed. Thanks much.