[Meadowfield]

"On or before Feb 5" Apple will hopefully ship out my new Power Mac 1.25. Can hardly wait!

I plan to have it connect to the internet via my Apple Airport Base Station since the cable enters the home at another part of the house. I anticipate that will be the easy part.

My question is, will this Pismo see the new addition and vice versa? Will I be able to see the other's hard drive? If so, is this a viable method to transfer all my data to the new mac which will become the primary unit? Can I sync data like iCal for instance between the two?! And, finally, does all this activity make me more vulnerable to interception?

Thanks in advance.

[Meadowfield]

Tought I'd bring this back up to the top...

[SPiNdustrious]

I don't know about the iCal syncing but I'll comment on your other questions...

Your machines will see each other. You can enable filesharing over your wireless connection. It works in exactly the same way as a wired connection in this regard.

If your Pismo has a 100Mbps ethernet port, use a wired connection (all you need is a regular ethernet cable...the PowerMac, like all modern Macs, autosenses whether it is connected to network hardware or directly to another machine and compensates accordingly...) since it will be much faster than the 11Mbps Airport link.

Either way, I would use Carracho (www.carracho.com) to transfer the files since it is more fully featured and markedly faster than AppleShare.

If you haven't properly secured your wireless network, you are potentially exposing yourself every time you use it. See this thread http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=142372 for more info.

Peter