How To Use The Optical Drive Of Another Computer

If you own a Mac, you can use the optical drive of another computer so that you can burn your files to a CD or DVD.

Last updated Sep 17, 2017 449

In order to perform this function you need to install a simple application called ” Toast Titanium ”. The following guide will explain, in short and simple steps, how to use the optical drive of another computer.

The first thing to do is to access your Mac with the connected optical drive that you are going to share. At this point, you have to move to the ” System Preferences ” section and then to the one called ” Sharing “. Here, you need to check out the items DVD or CD Sharing and Ask Before I Let Others Use My DVD Drive’ and then exit.
It should be kept in mind that in order to use the shared DVD, you need to have a MacBook Air or a Mac Mini, as with other Mac devices that already have the burner, this feature cannot be performed. In order to be able to activate it then you have to start the Terminal.
At this point, we must reboot the Mac, so that the commands given by the Terminal become active. So let’s find the Finder, and we will notice that the device disk on the left panel now displays the remote disk drive. We now install ” Toast Titanium ”. You can download it free of charge from the official site at this address: http://toast-titanium.it.malavida.com/mac/ by clicking the green ” Download ” button on the right of the page. After the installation, procedure is completed, you should restart the Mac again to make sure that the program correctly reads the drivers.
We now open Toast Titanium and select the preferences (audio and video quality, disk title, compatibility options) of the CD or DVD, we want to burn and finally click on ” Burn ” as the program will automatically read the shared drive from another Mac. It is important that the Mac connected to the shared optical drive is access to it and that the two Macs are connected to the same network.
You should burn each DVD always following the recommended compatibility settings so that it can be easily read by any device. If the procedure does not work, you must verify that all operations have been performed correctly.