Samba + Sharing Mac's CD/DVD Drive

Hello all,
Okay, this should be simple but I don't think Apple wants me to do what I'm trying to do. I've been looking everywhere for a solution. Here it goes...
My set up: Using SAMBA to share Mac OS X's /volumes using this samba declaration:
[Volumes]
comment = Mac's mounted Volumes
path = /Volumes
browseable = yes
read only = no
create mode = 755
Simplistic and gives me access to all mounted volumes on the Mac from my PC.
One problem though ...
Running a Windows EXE file from a shared CD/DVD disc on a Windows XP machine. Even the most basic Windows EXE file gives me an permission error:
"Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item."
Now in case you all are wondering why I'm doing this.. We use a lot of DVD+Rs at work to transfer files and my PC DVD drive does not read DVD+Rs. So I'm using the Mac's DVD drive to read them and share the drive's contents to the PC. Only I need to copy and the entire contents of DVD to the PC's hardrive in order to run an EXE. It starts to get tedious and unnecessary.
Permissions for the EXE from within Mac OS X:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 cougar cougar 646840 Sep 23 2005 setup.exe
Permissions from within Windows XP:
User 'cougar' and 'everyone' have at least Read and Execute permissions.
So that's my problem. I'm looking for a way to solve this dilemma.
Thanks for any suggestions or input in advance,

Giving up on this poor Question. Guess running Windows binaries from the Mac's DVD drive is out of the question.

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