[almcpeake]

Need some help please.

I did a search in a few different ways but had no luck.

I am a Mac newbie (only been playing for 6 months), trying to purge years of PC exposure.

What i want to do is be able to access two Firewire volumes mounted on my B&W G3 (essentially using it as a fileserver) but when ever I connect to the G3 via my powerbook it only sees the local HDD and not the firewire drives. Is this possible to do? If so what am I not doing.

Thanks for the help.

[Scifience]

Since you are referring to AppleTalk, it sounds like someone in the OS 9 forum would be able to help you more.

[almcpeake]

Well I only mentioned Appletalk because I thought that was the way Apples over ethernet prefeered to talk to each other. It is TCP/IP and the Powerbook has an IP and so does the B&W, was rendesvou (spelling i know) the more appropriate description? I checked the file sharing option in System Prefs on teh B&w (which is also running OS X).

[scottiB]

Try this:

Select the drive and go to File>Get Info.

Under the triangle for Ownership & Permissions make sure that Read & Write is selected from the pulldown menu beside Others.

Now, this makes that drive wide-open to anyone that logs into the computer. As well, you may want to make sure that No Access is not selected in any of the access fields.

If I'm correct, what's happened is that you need to make the drive shareable in addition to turning on file sharing.