[G4] Mac Network#@

[Al Poulin]

Rich:

Sorry, not a short answer, but here is a summary.

I'm a little perplexed about the G5 having 10.1.  I believe, according 
to lowendmac.com, that the machine came with 10.2 Jaguar.  There are 
chapters in books describing how to do what you want.  In David Pogue's 
series of books, "Mac OS X The Missing Manual," one for each version of 
OS X, there are a number of ways described for doing what you want to 
do.  But in your Finder Help, and at Apple's web site, you can get the 
basic info that you need.  Key words include File Sharing, Printer 
Sharing, and Public Folder.  In one method basically, with File Sharing 
enabled on each Mac, you copy files into your Public Folder on one 
computer and then go fetch them from there with the other computer.  
With photos, if you use the iPhoto application on each Mac, there are 
ways to keep albums (or events in Leopard) intact.  Also look for 
FireWire Disk Mode or Target Disk Mode which uses a FireWire cable 
between two Macs instead of Ethernet Cat 5.

I hope this helps you peel the onion in this business.

Al Poulin


On Mar 1, 2008, at 4:39 PM, rich northouse wrote:

> Sorry, I failed to mention that I want to transfer programs and data 
> between the two machines, as well as having them on the network. I 
> currently have them hooked together on a small cat5 network, sharing 
> printers, cable modem. etc.  What I want to is transfer files, photos, 
> etc.  between them.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hope you guys can help. I have two macs, a QS 733 G4(10.4.11) and a 
>> G5 1,6Ghz(10.1) that I want to connect on an cat5 network. The last 
>> time I had to do this was when I was using OS7 or 8. Things are a lot 
>> different nowdays. Is this a short answer, or do I need to look 
>> elsewhere?