[jamez bond]

I have just got myself an external firewire drive, and would like to let my girlfriend store some og the stuff from her machine on it.

I have an airport network at home (she is connected with wires) and the firewire drive is connected to my powerbook.
I guess I could have her store stuff on my computer and then manually drag stuff over to the drive....surely there must be a better way.

Any way I can share the firewire drive with others on the network?
Ah, and my girlfriend is using a windows laptop...shouldn't really matter, I guess...as long as I can share this drive somehow...

[pimephalis]

Originally posted by jamez bond:
I have just got myself an external firewire drive, and would like to let my girlfriend store some og the stuff from her machine on it.

I have an airport network at home (she is connected with wires) and the firewire drive is connected to my powerbook.
I guess I could have her store stuff on my computer and then manually drag stuff over to the drive....surely there must be a better way.

Any way I can share the firewire drive with others on the network?
Ah, and my girlfriend is using a windows laptop...shouldn't really matter, I guess...as long as I can share this drive somehow...

You could create a user account for her on the firewire drive (use NetInfo Manager), and then allow her to log in remotely.

[bzImage]

Setup Samba and share /Volumes/<name_of_your_external_disk>

This way she will be able to "see" the disk from windows like any other windows share.

[JB72]

I do a similar thing from an iMacDV (aka Kermit) in my apartment. My MP3's are located on a firewire drive attached to Kermie. I just log into an account I made on Kerms and mount the volume.

One thing I found helpful is the following advice for making a link to mount a specific share point mount, from the Apple support forums:

This is how i do it with an afp volume

in Safari or IE in the address bar I write

afp://username:password@server/sharepoint

example

afp://johnsmith:password@192.168.0.1/Shared_Folder

now before clicking connect drag the url from safari by the globe to my deskop as if I am making a bookmark, you now have a double clickable server share point connector,

you just make that file one of your login items and it will mount the share point automatically.

I am sure you can do the same with an smb:// volume.

Now I'm sure by this point I've already made it seem way harder than it is, but I feel the need to plug SharePoints. It's donation-ware.

SharePoints is an application or a preference pane that makes it easy to add and delete share points like in the old Finder. In Mac OS X, by default, you are limited to sharing only what is in your public folder in your home directory. This program makes it easy to share any folder.
In addition SharePoints also brings back users and groups management to Mac OS X as well as easy configuration of AppleFileServer (AFS) and Samba (SMB) Server properties.