{"id":69,"date":"2009-09-27T00:52:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T07:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.yanalunas.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2009-09-27T00:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T07:53:00","slug":"using-remote-disc-on-non-macbook-air-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.yanalunas.com\/blog\/archives\/69","title":{"rendered":"Using Remote Disc on non-MacBook Air machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick tip on how to use the &#8220;Remote Disc&#8221; capabilities on any Mac that isn&#8217;t an Air. For some reason Apple will let you share a drive but not read it over the network unless you&#8217;re on an Air. Yet another quirk from Cupertino. In any case, the solution is easy.<\/p>\n<p>Open up Terminal and run these two commands to update your settings. If you&#8217;re afraid of Terminal, just copy and paste these. Trust me, they&#8217;re harmless.<\/p>\n<pre>\r\ndefaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser EnableODiskBrowsing -bool true\r\ndefaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser ODSSupported -bool true\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Then open up Activity Monitor and force quit Finder. It will automatically restart. Open up a Finder window and marvel at the glory of sharing an OS X install disc over the network. Particularly handy when your MacBook Pro won&#8217;t read a disc.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m off to install Snow Leopard on my home\/studio MacBook Pro. Over the wireless. Why does this sound like a bad idea? Hmm&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick tip on how to use the &#8220;Remote Disc&#8221; capabilities on any Mac that isn&#8217;t an Air. For some reason Apple will let you share a drive but not read it over the network unless you&#8217;re on an Air. Yet another quirk from Cupertino. In any case, the solution is easy. Open up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,4,5],"tags":[20,19,17,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.yanalunas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.yanalunas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.yanalunas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.yanalunas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.yanalunas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/adam.yanalunas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"http:\/\/adam.yanalunas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.yanalunas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.yanalunas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.yanalunas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}