Vaguely travel related as the tablet PC is so dinky.....

I've managed to make a simple network to link the tablet PC to my old laptop. This is fine for file sharing, but I now need to add some software to the tablet. It has no input with it and whilst I could go out and buy a CD rom drive specifically for it, i'd have thought it would be possible to map a connection to the D drive on my laptop.

Can anyone explain how to do this?

The other option may be to copy the files off the CD onto the C drive of the laptop then launch from there, but I suspect that I might not be able to do this (I'm trying to install a new copy of Office 2003 professional).

Many thanks


Edited to add - I took the risk and managed to copy from the laptop's CD drive directly onto a shared drive on the tablet then run the instal from there, but would still like to know about mapping the CD drive from the tablet for the future,

Thanks

Tony, on your machine with the CD-rom you can share the CD drive, simply right click on it, click sharing and enable it.

As for mapping the CD, in your network neighbourhood (on the tablet) click on the shared drive, then in the top menu bar click on "map network drive".

HOWEVER; some applications will refise to install like this, they "demand" a CD drive to be physically present in the PC, in that case you'll need some kind of virtual CD drive application.

Scott,

Many thanks - works perfectly (although windows media player is one of those apps that doesn't want to work...)