From ultrabooks to netbooks, computers are shedding their optical drives. If you still use an occasional CD or DVD, you don’t have to buy an external optical drive – you can share another computer’s optical drive over the network.
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The two computers must be on the same local network to share an optical drive. This requires using the Advanced Sharing settings in Windows – there’s no easy, HomeGroup-style way of doing this.
Sharing a Drive
First, open the Computer window (click Start and select Computer) on the computer with the optical drive.
In Windows XP, click Start, and then click Control Panel. Double-click Add or Remove Programs, and then click Add New Programs. In the Add programs from your network list, click the program that you published, and then click Add. The program is installed. Click OK, and then click Close. Redeploy a package.
Right-click the drive you want to share, point to Share with and select Advanced Sharing
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Click the Advanced Sharing button in the properties window that appears.
In the next window, enable the Share this folder checkbox. Type a descriptive name – such as “CD Drive” – for the share, and then click the Permissions button.
Ensure that the Everyone group has Read access to the drive. If you require additional security – for example, if you’re not using a home network — you can restrict access to specific users. Click OK to save your changes after configuring the permissions.
You may want to disable password-protected sharing to make this easier, assuming you’re on a secure home network. To do so, click the Network and Sharing Center link under Password Protection.
Click the Home or Work header, scroll down, and select Turn off password protected sharing to disable it. Click the Save changes button after you’re done.
After you click the OK button, your drive will be shared on the network. You’ll see its address under Network Path in the properties window.
An icon over the drive indicates that it’s shared. To stop sharing the drive later, go back into its Advanced Sharing window and uncheck the Share this folder checkbox.
Mapping a Drive
On your other computer, open Windows Explorer and click the Network option to view your network.
Browse to the share you created, then right-click it and select Map network drive.
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You can specify a drive letter for the shared optical drive and have it automatically become mapped each time you log in.
The mapped drive will appear as its own drive letter in the My Computer window. Double-click the drive, or navigate to it in any application, to access its contents over the network.
We’ve also covered using Paragon Net Burner, a third-party program, to share disc drives over the network.
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Recently I read some articles, in this article told install OS over network. How can do this?
So I had three doubt. My question is
- Is it possible to install OS from server to all system?
- if it possible what are dominated ways to do that.
- if not possible why not?
Can any one explain to me.
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Single OS Methods
There are different methods depending on the operating system you are attempting to install
- Windows Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK)
- RHEL Chapter 3. PXE Network Installations
- Ubuntu 4.6. Automatic Installation
- FreeBSD Remote Installation of the FreeBSD Operating System Without a Remote Console
- OS X OS X Server: Creating a single NetBoot, NetInstall or NetRestore image for multiple Macs
Multi-Boot Gold Image Method
I am responsible for a group that amongst it's responsibilities maintains a couple hundred similar machines that have the following requirements:
- They are updated at the same time
- They are updated quarterly
- Downtime should be minimized
- They dual boot between a current Windows and Linux distro
- They have about 500GB of software installed
The method that we use is a Gold Image method, with a IGMP multicast/IP session management layer. A simplified version of our gold image setup and deployment is as follows
- Install Windows, Enter Audit Mode at user setup.
- Perform updates, and install software, Ninite, Secunia PSI (at home), or CSI at work, and Redmond App Manager (full disclosure, I am one of the authors) can be helpful.
- Use sysprep to enter generalized OOBE, and reboot to linux install
- Install Linux (we use Ubuntu at the moment)
- Install GPXE (so we can remotely force machines to PXE boot)
- We PXE boot all couple hundred machines to UDPCast and send from the gold image machine
The following are some solutions other than UDPCast that could work Free onenote 2010.
- Netcat, lzop (if your network is slower than disk), dd, tee, full duplex networking
Configuration Management
Were it not for our constraints, multiboot, and imaging 500GB to 200 machines all at once, in a short period of time, we would deploy a minimal OS configured with a configuration management solution. Some options you might look at are
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You can automatically network install/boot multiple OSs (Windows and Linux) with Serva
Serva automatically creates a repository structure that you have to populate by copying the content of your OS distribution ISOs, Serva takes care of all the background processes and when you boot a network client (PXE client) you will see a menu with all your OSs ready to network install.
Serva implements all the required network protocols specially proxyDHCP; this protocol let you integrate a network boot environment without touching the already in place DHCP infrastructure.(I'm related to Serva development)
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If you want to install images on identical hardware you can also consider FOG.
If you want to install only Microsoft you can use WDS/MDT/SCCM but the learning curve is steep.
If you are more oriented to Linux distributions unfortunately eachone has a different PXE approach what makes a multi OS PXE server hard to mantain manually.
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You can install Windows OS's over networks in one of two ways:
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For home/small organizations, you can use Windows AIK (Automatic Installation Kit), this not only lets you install an OS from a network location, it also lets you completely automate the procedure with an XML file called an answer file. It's not the easiest thing to get working and some command like knowledge and basic understanding of its function are necessary.
For large organizations, there is a Windows Server role called WDS (Windows Deployment Services) which brings Windows AIK into a server environment, you can store, sort and catalogue multiple OS images, driver packages and answer files in a neat GUI, this also used PXE so there is no need for any physical media (at all, not even the AIK CD), all the machine needs is a network connection that can reach the WDS server.
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