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Sharing CD-ROMs and Other Removable Drives

Although almost every home computer now sold includes a CD-ROM, this component is not usually standard equipment on the average business machine. One of the outstanding advantages to peer networking is the capability to share a CD-ROM drive among several users without the need to install it on a file server (a complicated process in a NetWare environment).

NetWare and CD-ROM Drives Loading a CD-ROM onto a NetWare file server requires the use of NLMs devoted to that task. You must allocate memory to support the additional disk space of the CD-ROM, and you must remount the volume every time the disk is changed. These tasks result in increased expense and aggravation for the network administrator. On the ...