[X4U] Can't see shared hard drive

[Kirk McElhearn]

On 3/30/05 8:39 PM, "Brian L. Matthews" <blmatthews at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a tower (G4 sawtooth) and a laptop (15" aluminum G4) both
> running the latest OS X (unless 10.3.9 gets released by the time you
> read this :-)). Until a few days ago, when I go to the laptop in the
> Network pane on the tower (I'm probably not using the right terms.
> Here's what I do. On the tower, double click the hard drive, click
> Network, double-click the laptop's icon) and connect as a registered
> user, the "Select the volumes you wish to mount" dialog offered me
> the laptop's hard drive and my home folder on the laptop. Now it's
> only offering me my home folder. Does anyone have any idea why? I've
> turned sharing off and back on on both machines, fixed permissions,
> rebooted, to no affect.

You can only see a shared drive if you have an admin account. I assume you
haven't changed your account on the host computer...
 
 
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