Trying to see DVD drive through DVD sharing. iMac does not see MacBook. DVD sharing is ON.

I have an iMac with a non-working DVD drive and I'm trying to install Snow Leopard from my MacBook's DVD drive. I have turned DVD Sharing ON but the iMac does not see the DVD drive in Finder's Shared Devices. I have tried FireWire, LAN through TimeCapsule and WiFi. Am I missing a step?
The iMac and MacBook are both late 2007 purchases and have 10.5.8.
Thanks for any help.

Two commands you need to type in terminal on the computer that has the dead drive. 
Disk sharing like the macbook air does is one of those things that's included in all OS X's on all computers, but that is not enabled.  (I think it's cause apple doesn't want to have to support it on more devices that they absolutely have to)
So here's how you enable it. 
In your Utilities Folder, open Terminal
copy and paste each line:
sudo -s
*type your password*
defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser EnableODiskBrowsing -bool true defaults write
com.apple.NetworkBrowser ODSSupported -bool true
shutdown -r now
Okee dokee... That last command will restart your computer, then you're off to the races!

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