It’s also an excellent way to get around problems with Macs that have failed or malfunctioning DVD drives. This is a fantastic feature and it beats paying for an external SuperDrive if you happen to have an older Mac with a DVD/CD drive laying around anyway. Afterwards, the disc is mounted and accessible as if the Mac had it’s very own DVD drive. When the Remote Disc is requested, access must be granted by the remote machine by default, though that setting can be disabled on the Mac with a superdrive.

From the Mac OS X Finder, open any window and navigate to the root directory to find “Remote Disc” or the DVD/CD name itself.

If CDs and DVDs are set to appear on desktop, look there to immediately find the shared disc… otherwise….

How to Access the Remote CD/DVD Drive on the Mac without a Superdrive If Mac preferences are set to allow for drives to show on the desktop, the DVD will be immediately visible there. Now that Remote Disc sharing is enabled, the remote DVD or CD can be accessed as if it was an internal superdrive.

Place a CD or DVD into the drive that needs to be accessible from the other Mac.

Check the box next to “Remote Disc” to enable the service (note that Mac OS X 10.6 will label it as “DVD or CD Sharing” instead).

Open System Preferences and choose “Sharing”.

How to Enable Remote Disc on the Mac with the CD/DVD SuperDrive

For example, a brand new MacBook Air or Retina MacBook Pro running the latest version of macOS High Sierra, Sierra, OS X El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion can access the SuperDrive of a much older Mac running Snow Leopard, as we will demonstrate in the walkthrough outlined below. Remote Disc is easy and seamless, and works across a wide range of Mac OS X versions.

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