You can forget about hardware CD-ROM servers or distributing CDs!

All you have to do is simply store the virtual CDs/DVDs on your network for all users to access. The advantages are even more clear when you require multi-user, simultaneous access to Virtual CD's.  You can even use Virtual CD in a Peer to Peer network environment.

 
Virtual CD is designed for network operation. Simply install the client onto a workstation and you can then access Virtual CD's on the fileserver, shared computers or other network location and insert the Virtual CD. Server components are not necessarily required.

When working with larger CD networks it is advisable to expand the installation to include the Virtual CD Network Management Server for easy management and control of the Virtual CD clients.

 
As the administrator, you determine, which capabilities the network computers will have. You define who may create, delete, or edit virtual CDs/DVDs, who is administration-enabled, or who can merely read the virtual CDs/DVDs. You create a client setup of Virtual CD on your server and then install "your" version of Virtual CD.

 
Virtual CD automatically recognizes all virtual CDs in the central directory on the file server. Virtual CD immediately shows or extracts just created or deleted CDs on all clients.

 
Do you prefer Linux servers and Window-clients? You can also store the virtual CDs on a Linux server and work on the Windows-clients as before. For access all you need is an SMB or similar.

 
Mobile computers, such as laptops, can access both centrally and locally stored virtual CDs. If the computer is not networked, Virtual CD immediately uses the local resources. If the computer is plugged into a network at a later time, all centrally stored virtual CDs become available again.

 
Most CD-ROM servers or central physical CD/DVD drives make the medium accessible as a "share." However, this CD method has a huge disadvantage: because of the share, the central CD or DVD functions as a hard drive. Playing real audio or multimedia tracks is no longer possible.
With Virtual CD, however, network computers receive the medium as CD or DVD! Whatever you would run locally can be run over the network with only a few minor exceptions.