[G4] Mac Network#2

[rich northouse]

Al,

Thanks -- nice eagle eye you have -- the 5 of 10.5.1 got left off.  
Thanks for your ideas.

Rich
On Mar 1, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Al Poulin wrote:

> 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?
>
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