[opensuse] Samba Share Drive Help

I recently purchased an Acer Aspire One notebook computer (no CD or DVD drives). I need to make available to the Acer at least one of the CD/DVD drives on a Linux machine (OpenSUSE 11.0) so that I can install software. I thought Samba (version 3.0x) would let me do this but I cannot find any instructions on how to do it. I did find reference to something called drive mapping but only in Samba V2. Would someone point me to relevant newbie-style instructions or tell me I can't do that anymore. Any info or alternate procedures appreciated. -- Don Henson