[SOLVED] Question about target disk mode

[klunuts]

so i know that when you hook up a mac via firewire to another mac you can use target disk mode which will make the 'target' computer appear as a disk mounted hard drive on the 'host' computer, but i was wondering if there is a way you could use target disk mode to use the dvd drive of the 'target' computer with the 'host' computer?

my problem is that i have an old g4 imac and it has a cd drive, not a dvd drive, but my powerbook g4 has a dvd so i want to use the powerbooks drive with the imac... just don't know if it's possible.

any help would be great!

 

[Ijack]

That should work. But there's an easy way to find out - try it and see what happens!

 

[fellskrazykayaker]

Yes, this is possible. I've done this many times.

 

[wildwell]

You can also access (share) your laptop's optical drive, HDD, attached external drives, etc. over your LAN. This lets you keep the laptop as an independently running computer (if needed).

 

[klunuts]

awesome, thank you guys i'm gonna give it a try!