[Freeflyer]

Hi all,

this evening I was trying to transfer some files from my old pc to the new powerbook.

I have an alias of the pc's C drive on my mac desktop. I usually have the powerbook connected to the pc on the network via airport. When I click the C alias it opens up a finder window to the shared C drive.

Hunky dory.

However, because there were several hundred megs of data to move this evening I connected to the network by ethernet for the higher speeds. The network configured fine, and I could access internet etc, but when I clicked the C drive alias, it told me the alias was incorrect.

I tried to open a new share (finder-go-connect to server etc) but when it tried to connect to the c drive I received a -47 error. I looked this up at apple and it says the device is busy.

I tried turning off airport, and that made no difference. I could log in from the pc and transfer the files in that direction which is what I did. Once done, I unplugged the ethernet, turned on the airport and then clicked on the C drive alias and up comes a finder window that allows me to see the pc.

As Ellen would say, 'Hunh!'

Can anyone explain to me what I was doing wrong. The ip address didn't change because I used the other network connection, so I'm confused as to why it would work over airport but not through the ethernet. I understood that the mac should make that a seamless process.

Cheers,

J.

[ghporter]

The alias has the PC's drive tied up. I think you have to disable the alias (or delete it) for the connection to be freed up, but I don't know how to do that correctly-never been in your bind.