[X-Newbies] Sharing External HD

[Tony Johansen]

On 13/7/2005 4:42 PM, "Randy B.Singer" <randy at macattorney.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, that is the whole point of Firewire Target Disk Mode.  FTDM allows
> you to connect two computers together with a FireWire cable and transfer
> the files as if you were transfering from one drive to another (simple
> drag and drop).  Zero configuration is required, and FireWire is much
> faster than 10Base-T Ethernet.:

OK, firewire experiment underway soon as we get the FW cable.

I now wonder: can this be done with a windows machine via an external hard
drive, or more directly? I know OS X can utilise hard drive space that is
Fat-32 formatted. Could it then be possible to move files from one to the
other over FW, work on the files on the other machine, then awap them back
over.

A hypothetical example so you understand what I'm thinking: There are many
programs I would like to have access to but are Windows only. An example is
Swish. Could I create a banner in Swish on Windows, then access that file
from the Mac and insert it into another graphic for the web?

Besides, I guess I'm attracted to the idea of having a Windows machine in a
slave relationship with a Mac :-)

Tony