Mini - "Waiting for Disc Drive"

Attempting to copy some pictures from an SD card in a mac mini to a CD in the optical drive on an iMac.
Mac Mini says its waiting for the optical drive  with a message ""Waiting for Disc Drive". It won't progess beyond this message.
I've tried to connect with a CD in the drive and no CD in the drive.
The iMac recognizes that the blank CD is loading.
Both computers can see each other across the network.
I have CD DVD drive sharing enabled on the iMac.
Any suggestions as to how I get the mac mini to see the drive/CD on the iMac?
Thanks.

Hi Richard,
I think the Problem might be you're trying to Copy to a CD instead of Burning them to a CD?
On the iMac you need a Burn Folder 1st to copy to...
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4159?viewlocale=en_US

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