



But when I do that it doesn't show up (it seems to be hidden) and if I try to manually enter the path into Windows Explorer it says "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action." I did find one trick mentioned, whereby one creates a symlink from the mounted optical drive to one's home directory, e.g. You might not have permssion to use this network resource." But in file sharing everyone has at least read-only access. If I add the drive as a shared folder, then I can see it under (e.g.) \\OSXHostName\OFFICE12 but when I double click on it, I get a dialog box telling me it "is not accessible. \\OSXHostName I don't see the optical drive show up.) However, when I browse to my Mac on the Network (e.g. I have enabled "DVD or CD Sharing" from System Preferences:Sharing. I need to install something from a CD on my PC, but it doesn't have an optical drive.
