Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!udel!news.sprintlink.net!connected.com!beauty!rwing!fylz!eskimo!daedulus From: daedulus@eskimo.com (Erik Hermansen) Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: CD-ROM woes with WFWG3.11 Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 94 16:55:57 GMT References: <2ltfch$sag@ulysses.iol.ie> Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever Lines: 36 In article <2ltfch$sag@ulysses.iol.ie>, Alan O'Flaherty wrote: >Help ! > >Has anyone got a CD-ROM shared under Windows for workgroups 3.11 ? I >previously posted a message to alt.windows.setup but got no reply. I have >tried every version of MSCDEX I could get my hands on (including the one >with DOS 6.2). If you have it working, could you maybe mail me a copy of >your config.sys and autoexec.bat to see if there is anything I am missing >there. > >Here's hoping someone will be able to point me in the right direction. > >Thanks, >Alan O'Flaherty > >-- > >Alan O'Flaherty | Tulip Computers - Truly European >Software Support Department | Tel : +353-1-2957166 >Sord Data Systems Ltd. | Fax : +353-1-2957284 BBS : T.B.A. On a network you will want to use the "/S" option with MSCDEX to enable sharing of the CD-ROM. That would be one pitfall. My PC isn't on a network--the one I'm thinking of is a four-user deal I set up sharing one CD-ROM drive. They've had no problems with it that I heard about, but I can't send you their startup files without inconvening myself quite a bit. What is the error that you get?