K first of all, I think this forum needs something along the lines of a "Networking" category for posts such as this.
Ok. I have 2 computers hooked up in the ICS fasion (w2kpro gateway, w98se workstation)--such a fun setup for my own CS server!!! My question is this: I have a DVD player on the gateway machine. Is there any way for me to pop a DVD in that drive, and watch the movie on the workstation box? I can map a network drive out of the DVD, but when I try to run a generic DVD player on the worstation, it says that no drive was detected (kind of expected, I guess). I don't have enough room in the workstation case for the DVD drive, unless I swap out my 48x cdrom, or my 5.25" panel-cooled hard disks, which I just don't wanna do.
No way now how. Doing something like this is possible but we are talking some serious bandwidth. Not to mention you would have to get the proper software to stream the content to your workstation. I'm not even sure if you could get decent quality streaming a DVD movie over a Gigabit connection. The only way I can think of doing something like this is to get a KVM switch but your other system would have to be somewhat close because monitor cables dont reach that far.
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