[G4] connect to external firewire drive

Philip J Robar pjrobar at areyoureallythatstupid.org
Wed Oct 12 20:34:33 PDT 2005


On Oct 12, 2005, at 9:17 PM, Gary Willard wrote:

> I have an external firewire drive connected to my G4. (OS 10.3.9) I  
> connect to my G4 remotely with my powerbook laptop in another room  
> in the house via an ethernet router. I have 2 hard drives in my G4.  
> When I "connect to server" from the finder of my laptop, I can get  
> to my G4, see and connect to both of those internal drives. I  
> cannot see or connect to the external firewire drive, even though  
> when I physically go to my G4, it is there on the desktop. What am  
> I missing? Does that software solution apply to this too? Thanks  
> for any help.
>
>> On Oct 12, 2005, at 7:26 PM, Daniel Brieck Jr. wrote:
>>
>> I don't think you can do that on os 10 very easily. ...
>>
>> I remember a feature of os 9 that allowed you to Share a Drive or  
>> folder by clicking a checkbox. That is missing with os 10 unless  
>> you have the Server version unless i am mistaken, but you can  
>> still do it someway. ...

You need SharePoints. Free from Hornware at http://www.hornware.com/ 
sharepoints/, VersionTracker, or MacUpdate.


Phil
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