HT5287 Tried all those suggestions and remote disk does not appear in finder

Tried all the suggsetions and still cannot see the remote disk in the finder window.

As noondaywitch says, "Ah! A remote optical drive, not a HD."
You need to download and install "Secrets"
<http://macupdate.com/app/mac/27025/secrets>
It is a System Preferences addition and it will let you set thousands of under the table settings, including making your Macbook Pro beleive it should look for a networked CD/DVD drive, just like the Macbook Air.
WARNING:  If you go crazy setting lots of extra stuff via Secrets, take careful notes so you can undo any damage you do, as it is unlikely anyone is going to guess you made changes via "Secrets"
Once you have installed Secrets, go to System Preferences -> Secrets -> Finder and set
Show remote disks 1 [X]
Show remote disks 2 [X]
You may need to restart the Finder before they take effect.  Apple Menu -> Force Quit -> Finder -> Relaunch
As I am NOT in your situation, I cannot test this in advance, so please let us know if it works as suggested.
If that does not work, I did a Google search for "enable mac os x remote dvd" and came up with some alternate ways to enable this feature.

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