My MacBook is borked, forcing me to rely upon my old-ish Power Mac for a while. It's still running Tiger, so I'd like to install Leopard on it — but its optical drive is also borked. So I thought about the possibility of using Apple's Remote Disc feature, which is by default enabled only on MacBook Airs, but has been shown to be enable-able on any Mac running Leopard:
As Apple's documentation shows, the
server can be installed on any host machine running Tiger, Leopard, XP or Vista. However, there is no documentation (that I've found) mentioning whether the
client can be made to work on Tiger. (None of the documentation makes a clear separation between client and server system requirements.) This forum post is the closest I've found:
Here's what I've done:
- Installed the server per instructions on a Vista host. (I'm assuming this is working correctly, although I've been unable to verify this.)
- Installed Migration and CD/DVD Sharing Update 1.1 on the client machine, which is running Tiger. (I'm not even sure this is necessary for the client machine; it seems like it's just the server to me, but might also contain a client.)
- Set the following com.apple.NetworkBrowser preferences, as mentioned in the above forum posts:
Code:
defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser EnableODiskBrowsing -bool true
defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser ODSSupported -bool true
- Enabled the CD or DVD Sharing service in the Sharing preference pane. (Again, this seems like just the server component.)
- Rebooted both the host and client after installing the products.
To be honest, I'm not even sure where the remote disc would manifest in Tiger, if at all. Would it be in the sidebar of Finder windows? I don't think so — individual network sources aren't listed there until Leopard.
The Network browser shows an entry for the host machine (call it FOO) which, if clicked, shows the standard network drive mount message: "To see the available shares for server "FOO", click Connect." Clicking Connect and authenticating shows a dialog with the message "Select the SMB/CIFS shared volume you want to connect to," and lists only the machine's Public folder. Somehow I don't think this is where the Remote Disc is supposed to be found.
I'm beginning to think that the client is part of Leopard, which is why installing Migration and CD/DVD Sharing doesn't do anything for me. But perhaps the client is just a loosely-wrapped, Zeroconf-informed NFS mount that I can replicate manually from the Terminal?
Anyone have any ideas? I don't know where to go to find shares advertised via Zeroconf/Bonjour, for a start.
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