Sharing a Mounted Image over a network.

[thezone]

Hi all,

Could someone please advise if this is possible? Once an image is mounted using Daemon tools, if I right click on the virtual drive the sharing and security tab is missing. It is there for all other "real" drives. Is this function available for use with virtual drives?

Can anyone help?

Cheers

[James]

Originally Posted by thezone

Hi all,

Could someone please advise if this is possible? Once an image is mounted using Daemon tools, if I right click on the virtual drive the sharing and security tab is missing. It is there for all other "real" drives. Is this function available for use with virtual drives?

Can anyone help?

Cheers

Don't know about DT, but it certainly works with Virtual CloneDrive.
OTOH it might be better to install VCD on the client machine and simply mount the file from a remote server. Both methods should work.

[Blazkowicz]

The tab Sharing is generally active for DT's virtual drives.

[damnskippy]

I agree with mounting the ISO on the local machine over the network rather than mounting a shared virtual drive on the other machine. No reason to complicate things.

[James]

Originally Posted by damnskippy

I agree with mounting the ISO on the local machine over the network rather than mounting a shared virtual drive on the other machine. No reason to complicate things.

Well, there might be a reason to do it. Like mounting a protected image and letting AnyDVD decrypt it on the server. Useful if you want to access it from machines without AnyDVD running (Mac? Linux? Solaris? FreeBSD? Not enough AnyDVD licenses?)

[damnskippy]

True and good point.

[thezone]

The reason I'm trying it this way is that I am trying to stream blu-ray image wirelessly. I am using the latest 7300n billion draft-n modem/router. Before playing the image using pwrdvd the reported conncetion speed is 150Mbps but as soon as i mount the image on the local machine the speed drops down to anywhere as slow as 50Mbps and the movie stutters. There is a bottle neck somewhere and i just thought i would try to mount the image on originating machine and see if this helps playablility.

The machine which has the image is connected to the wirless router by 10/100 ethernet ans the machine i am trying to play the file on using pwrdvd is connected to network with wireless pci draft-n.

[thezone]

I managed to enable sharing of a mounted image over the network for both DT and VCD but when i try to map a network drive fomr the client machine it says that the file system present on the shared drive is not recognised. Therefore i cannot get the host shared drive to show in the drop down list on pwrdvd on the client machine.

[James]

Originally Posted by thezone

I managed to enable sharing of a mounted image over the network for both DT and VCD but when i try to map a network drive fomr the client machine it says that the file system present on the shared drive is not recognised. Therefore i cannot get the host shared drive to show in the drop down list on pwrdvd on the client machine.

Won't work. PDVD won't let you.
You must have VCD installed on the client machine with PDVD. Let VCD mount the remote image file. If it is an encrypted image, AnyDVD must be running on the client as well.