Are you using AFP to do this? When you mount the second systems hard drive are you also mounting the shared first systems hard drive? I don't know if you can that but I guess it could be done. Have you restarted both computers and tried mounting? Jens On Dec 9, 2006, at 10:10 AM, nk wrote: > connected directly via ethernet cable. I got it straight from > Apple tech support that this procedure is OK and supported by apple > for my macs and OS X version.