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Old June 2nd, 2008, 02:32 PM
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Open disk drive in screen sharing

I did a few searches for this and didn't find anything... I also confess I may be totally missing something.

I have a G5 tower I run via screen-sharing from my MBPro. Works great – I can do anything I want. The only kicker is TO OPEN THE DISK DRIVE I need to either manually hook up a keyboard or use the diskutil command. Am I missing some basic functionality here?

A petty aggravation I admint, but come on... Having to open a shell to insert a disk makes me think I'm missing something.
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Old June 2nd, 2008, 03:13 PM
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I take it you are referring to your optical disk drive?

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I believe this works in Leopard as well:

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/05/22/mac-1...-the-menu-bar/

You can simply add an "eject" menu to the menubar and open/close optical drive trays that way.
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