CD Sharing with two macbooks

Hey, I don't really know too much about computers but hopefully someone can help me out....my mom and I are trying to upgrade our macbooks to Snow Leopard, but unfortunately my optical drive is no longer functional...however I think there is a way to enable cd sharing between the two computers. I have enable sharing but don't exactly know what to do next...any tips? Is this even possible?

Is a CD in the Shared disk on the other machine? If so, go to finder on the machine with the broken CD. Look under "Devices" for "Remote Disc". Click on that and it should show the other machine name. Expand that link and you'll see the mounted DVD. Double click that and it should mount on your machine.
Cheers
Edit: Sorry, that was for MacBook Air. Go to finder on the machine with the broken DVD reader and look under Shared. The other machine name should be there. Click on it and when it connects you should see the mounted DVD.
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