About Bob Wood Expertise I can help in MAC networking and problems. No PC expierence, but can guide you to useful info on networking Macs and PCs, and software available for crossplatform networking.
Experience 10 years Mac expierence. 6 years tech support.
Expert: Bob Wood Date: 10/8/2006 Subject: file sharing between to mac
Question I have 2 macs, a G5 (10.3.9) with a cable modem and an Airpot
base attached to it, and a PowerBook running Tiger with an airport
card.
I've already enabled File sharing on both macs, but I cannot see
them in the server window. What am I doing wrong?
Answer Hi Alejandro
The first step is: on each computer, go into System Preferences, then Sharing, and turn on "Personal File Sharing". On that page, you'll see, at the top, the computer's name (which you can change), and at the bottom, the IP number (eg 10.0.1.2), which you may need as an alternative.
Then, on each computer, go to Finder, then click on Network. You may straightaway see the other computer appear - you can click on it, click "Connect", and then either log in as a user (it has to be a user that's been set up on that machine), or a guest.
Now, if that computer doesn't immediately appear, go to the Finder, click cmd-K (to open the Connect to Server dialogue), and type in
