No need to buy external DVD drive use the one you already have.

[totalsolutions]

Adding a DVD drive to your netbook by sharing the one in your desktop PC.
This tells you how to to share a DVD (CD ROM) and then “Map a Drive”

On your main PC in My Computer select the DVD/CD you want to share. Right click and select Share.
Tick the Share box and close. On the menu bar there should be a “Map a Drive”. Click and browse to the new shared drive. Click ok. On the Samsung laptop open “Network”. (Start/Computer/Network) There will be your main pc, in there is the DVD/CD you shared. Pop in a disc and view on the laptop, install/play/watch a DVD playing on the main pc and viewing on the laptop.

This is really easy to do and hope this reads ok.

Any firewalls you have will need to be set to allow connections if blocking access.

[TCMuffin]

Useful post – thank you, totalsolutions 🙂

[jez]

Nice one, added to the FAQ and created a little wiki page: [Wiki]How To:Install Software on a Netbook using a Networked desktop drive[/Wiki].

I’m sure that will be useful.

[Author]

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