No dvd or cd sharing available. Help?

Before I upgraded to Lion I could share my mini's optical drive, now i can not, and dont even have the option in sharing to enable DVD or CD sharing. Anyone know a fix?

found the answer elsewhere. The 13" Macbook Pro doesn't support shared disk browsing natively (my Mini servers do). To turn it on on the 13" the following commands do the trick:
defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser EnableODiskBrowsing -bool true
defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser ODSSupported -bool true
Bob Smith

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I can do everything else but for some reason can't copy files. i've noticed that suddenly all computers have screen sharing available. i know its not the clients as it works fine on another mac. but on this one it just fails all the time. i've checked the version and they are both the same 3.2.2 but i am flumuxed. i reinstalled last week and thought it had resolved but then suddenly today it happened again. does anybody know why this is happening?

Roboloko
+Is this the recommended procedure from apple?+
Not really. It's simply common troubleshooting techniques that have been used time and time again by many who've experienced problems generally. Some are recommended by Apple. Search as many of the boards as you can and you'll find these tips/recommendations mentioned countless times as well as many others. Sometimes its not something directly related to ARD that is causing ARD to have a problem.
+did you after some test get to the conclusion that this will solve the problem?+
No testing as such. Sometimes it solves the problems other times it does not. It's offered as something for you try before you contemplate something more drastic such as reinstalling a clean OS followed by a reinstall of ARD. Or ultimately a reformat and reinstall.
I can see from your later post that it's not worked for you. I'm not surprised. Sometimes there are deeper underlying problems that only a reinstall or reformat and reinstall will 'cure' or possibly a solution offered by another poster? What was offered here was only meant as a possibility that might assist. As a computer user - regardless of platform - you should know this?
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Then, I tried to reinstall the software as Apple tell us to do, but I pops up a message "a newer version of DVD or CD sharing is already installed on your computer."
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I normally use the "copy" feature to push new zip files of our Web site to the server when it is updated. When logging into ARD today, I noticed all the servers are no longer showing "Control". Instead they all have "Screen Sharing Available" listed in the current status column. When I go to copy my files from my local machine to the servers, I get an error: "This Task Will Fail - The remote desktop software is not active on www.servername.com".
However if I select a server and then click the control button, I can still connect to the server fully and work with it?
This has never happened before and I am at a loss as to the issue. I have had some changes to my local setup recently that may be the cause of the problem.
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2) Keychain got corrupted. Deleted the login.keychain file to rebuild a new one.
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If I try and drag-copy my zip files to the servers from my local machine after connecting via ARD, the window that asks if I want to send the file ignores my click on the "send" button and does nothing? Before this problem occurred I could easily drag-copy items.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/DL112
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Just trying to set up install DVD or CD Sharing Setup on my MacBook so I can use Remote Disc on the Air, but have got this message on the Select A Destination screen:
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ARD 3.2.2 - Current Status - Screen Sharing Available

Hello,
like several other users i do have a problem with some of our mac client computers in ARD 3.2.2
Usually those Macs do display a Current Status in ARD like:
Idle (time)
or
Available
which we would call an expected state.
Unfortunally some macs tend to show another status:
"Screen Sharing Available".
This other status results in: a working screen sharing in ARD
BUT other tasks like i.e. UNIX Commands send from ARD to this hosts just dont work as ARD end in the following error message:
The Remote Desktop Client software is not active on HOSTNAME
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The only problem here is that i cant define UDP or TCP on 10.3.9 Macs.
The macs do run Mac OS X versions from 10.3.9 up to 10.5.6
Sometimes a simple reboot fixes the "Screen Sharing Available" issue.
Right now i am wondering how to fix this issue as some threads do suggest re-checking firewall settings ( which i did ) others suggest using a local administrator insteed of the admins name in Sharing.
Right now none of those hints worked for me and i am wondering if this is a known bug and if there is a known solution.
any help is appreciated
Best regards
fidel

I have been experiencing the same problem now for months -- various Macs on my network that I control/administer with ARD 3.2.2 intermittently displaying a status of "Screen Sharing Available".
After reading through this thread, I started poking around in System Preferences on my client Mac (from which I control/administer the others), and I appear to have fixed my problem! I have no idea if this will help anyone else, but here's what I did:
In the "Security" preference pane of "System Preferences", I clicked on the "Firewall" tab. The ensuing window contains a list of applications, each followed by a pop-up menu containing two options: "Block incoming connections" and "Allow incoming connections"
Sure enough, "ARDAgent" was in the list of apps and sure enough, it's setting was "Block incoming connections". I changed this setting to "Allow incoming connections", switched back Apple Remote Desktop, and hit Command-Y to refresh the listing of ARD computers on my network (I did not even quit and re-launch ARD). The list was immediately updated, and ALL of ones that had been showing "Screen Sharing Available" in the "Current Status" column switched to "Available" or "Idle (time)" and their icons switched from pale blue to the normal, darker blue.
Problem solved (at least for now)! Will report back any changes/updates.
Additional information, for those that are interested:
I have 12 Macs on my office LAN that I control remotely from the iMac on my desk (same office, same subnet). All are running ARD 3.2.2.
The iMac on my desk is currently running Mac OS X 10.5.6. It is a first-get Intel iMac.
The 12 Macs on the network are running various versions of OS X from 10.3.9 to 10.5.6. All but one are older PPC Macs; one is a newer, aluminum Intel iMac. As of this morning, all three that are running Leopard were working correctly with ARD, while the results were mixed with the others running both Tiger and Panther. From this, I can only conclude the OS version on the various server Macs makes no difference with regard to this problem, although it MAY be that those running Leopard are immune. I cannot be sure of that, however.
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The dvd or cd sharing is missing in settings/sharing. where can i find it?

I just bought a Macbook Air and am trying to install Office for Mac on it using my iMac. So I went to Settings/sharing/ and am looking for DVD or DC sharing box to check but it is missing. It is available on my iMac, but not on the Air. I guess I need it to install the Office disk but it is missing. Anyone knows what to do?

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http://babygotmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/picture-81-1.png
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