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TICKET ARCHIVE -> iMac revA not sharing Firewire Drives

bughunter - Feb 16, 2007 - 12:41 am

I have an Airport Extreme 802.11b network and two Macs: a two year old iMac 17" (1.8GHz G5, 10.3.9) and a four month old MacBook Pro 15" (2GHz CoreDuo, 10.4.8).

The iMac has two firewire drives attached to it, and file sharing is turned on, firewalls off, and "ignore permissions" checked in the Get Info windows for the external drives. Yet the iMac is not sharing these external drives.

When I first acquired the MBP, it could login remotely to the iMac and mount any of the internal or external volumes. Something happened to make this stop, and I cannot determine the cause.

I have changed users, created new users, made shortcuts to the drives, altered their permissions and restored them... nothing changes.

No one on Apple's support forums even acknowledges my questions posted there. I need my iMac to share content on these external drives with my laptop, and with a MacMini I plan to purchase soon.

Help!

gsahli - Feb 17, 2007 - 12:24 pm

I recommend you get the well-known utility "Sharepoints" to set sharing up.
Available from www.versiontracker.com

bughunter - Feb 18, 2007 - 2:00 pm

Thanks for the recommendation - i will try it this weekend and see if the behavior improves before closing the ticket.

Can you recommend a good introduction to mac networking and file sharing on the web somewhere?

Thanks again!

gsahli - Feb 18, 2007 - 3:44 pm

I suggest you read the many help items in Mac Help about file sharing. (Finder's Help menu > Mac Help)

bughunter - Feb 20, 2007 - 9:49 am

OK - I found time this morning to install and setup SharePoints 3.5.1 prefpane on the iMac and after restarting, the volumes I need shared are now available for the MacBook Pro.

Thank you for your help! You can now close t his ticket. If this somehow becomes inoperable again, I will open another ticket or seek support from the SharePoints publisher.