How can I share the DVD on my iMac with a PC ?

I have a tablet PC with no DVD and I would like to share the DVD on my iMac with the tablet PC. I have configured everything to "see" my PC from my iMac and my iMac to my PC, and I can see the shared folders, but there is no way of seeing the DVD in my iMac from the PC. I have turned on "DVD sharing" in my System Preferences. Does anybody has any clue about what I'm doing wrong ?
Thanks for your help
Joan

Thanks very much for your suggestion, but in the summary at the top of the page you mention we can read:
"You can use a DVD or CD via another computer's optical drive by enabling DVD or CD sharing. You might want to do this if your Apple computer did not come with an optical drive and if you don't have an external Apple USB SuperDrive."
Thus, I understand that the procedure explained there is to share a DVD on a PC with a Mac, but I want to do the oposite : to share a Mac DVD with a PC....
I have read somewhere that Mac DVDs are not intended to be shared with Windows machines, but I have got no "official" (that is, Apple endorsed) confirmation of this...

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