Can see shared CD drives on MBA, but cannot read any data from disks

Puzzling one here.
Have a MBA and am trying to use the shared drives on either a Windows XP computer, or MacBookPro notebook. Both computers are on the same wireless network, and both computers have DVD/CD sharing enabled.
In the RemoteDisk shortcut on the MBA, I can see both computers and their shared drives, and I can even see the title of the disks that are in the drives, however, I cannot see any of the data on the disks. It tells me 0MB at the bottom of the window.
The MBA has all updates installed, and I even tried to manually install the RemoteDisk/Sharing update from Apple.
I found this post, and tried the commands in Terminal, but that did not help: http://jasonevangelho.com/2008/11/02/how-to-really-enable-remote-disc-dvd-drive- sharing-non-air-macbook/
Any idea's?

Oh yeah, I forgot to say that the wireless router is a Time Capsule.

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