Windows 10: Unable to Share DVD Drives

I set up a private home network last week between two desktop computers, and all of my selected folders have been shared successfully between the two, however both computers will not allow me access to the other's DVD drive. Everything with with them has been set up exactly like my shared folders, with access set to 'Everyone' for both DVD drives. My old computer has Vista (32-bit), and my main computer has Windows 10 Pro (64-bit).

With each machine, these are the errors I get below (screenshots).

Thinking that I was doing something wrong, I looked up an article on how to share DVD drives, and I have both computers set up exactly as it explains here for both DVD drives: Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 10 - Sharing a CD/DVD Drive on a Network

Is there something that I'm missing?

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network default administrative shares not being generated for CD/DVD drive

Hi,

Conflicts with the device drivers is one of the possible reasons why you are having issues access the shared CD/DVD drive. For us to assist you better, kindly answer the questions below:

• Have you made any changes to your computer prior to this issue?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?
• May we know the operating system of the computer that the shared CD/DVD drive is connected?
• Have you tried uninstalling the CD/DVD drive driver?

Regards.

 

Sharing a CD/DVD drive over internet

If you want to share a dvd drive from a computer that has one to a computer that doesn't here are a few steps:

"Do the following to share the optical drive of one computer on a local area network:

1. Open Windows Explorer on the PC that has the optical drive.
2. Locate the drive, right-click it, and select Properties from the context menu.
3. Switch to the sharing tab in the properties window.
4. Click on the advanced sharing button.
5. Check "Share this folder".
6. Type a descriptive name under "Share name", e.g. DVD Drive.
7. The remaining settings are all optional. You can limit the number of simultaneous users, add comments, or define permissions or caching in detail. It is usually not required to make any changes here.
8. Click ok.

Head over to the computer that you want to access the DVD drive on. Open Windows Explorer, and there the network listing. you should see the new shared folder here. Simply click on it to access its contents and work with the files stored
on the disc."

If an error message comes up saying "\\your computer name\d is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if
you have access permissions." you have to either restore your computer to an earlier date or insert a cd/dvd int the drive to make it work.

 

Dvd drive not showing

Is this the HP 15r014tx in your system specs? If so, try the steps in this thread....
https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebo...r/td-p/6186456

It may be that your DVD drive has a hardware failure (as was suggested in that thread).

More HP support and diagnosis suggestions here in their Help pages....

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03370738