[MarinoD]

I have 2 MBP (2.16ghz, 10.4.9) each with an external 500gb drive, in different parts of the house. They are fed by the same cable router, so I can see the Public folder on the other machine. How do I access the external HDD from the other machine?

I'd love to be able to drag material from one external drive to the other, without having to hook them to a hub on one machine. I'd like to leave each laptop with its own external drive, and just drag across material as I need it, this isn't a daily routine, just looking for a better solution than disconnecting a drive, walking it down to the other machine, connecting a hub, dragging a file or 2 across, and then disconnecting, and bringing it back upstairs. These files are bigger than 2 gb, so the zip drive doesn't work. And burning DVD's for every little job is just outside my budget

[liquidsilver6840]

You go to Network -> Select the other MBP -> authenticate using your user on the other MBP. After that, you should get a window allowing you to select a drive to mount. You should see your home folder, hard drive, external drive, and even the DVD drive if a DVD is inserted.

I hope this can help you

[C.A.T.S. CEO]

Originally Posted by liquidsilver6840 

You go to Network -> Select the other MBP -> authenticate using your user on the other MBP. After that, you should get a window allowing you to select a drive to mount. You should see your home folder, hard drive, external drive, and even the DVD drive if a DVD is inserted.

I hope this can help you

Also, make sure that Personal File Sharing is enabled.

[MarinoD]

Originally Posted by liquidsilver6840 

You go to Network -> Select the other MBP -> authenticate using your user on the other MBP. After that, you should get a window allowing you to select a drive to mount. You should see your home folder, hard drive, external drive, and even the DVD drive if a DVD is inserted.

I hope this can help you

From computer A, I opened a finder window, select "Network" "My Network" "Computer B" and the "Connect" button appears above a warning "To see the available shares for server "Computer B", click connect.

Up pops "Connect to Server" window, asking you to connect to the file server "Computer B" Connect as Guest or Registered User. I select Registered User, enter Computer A's name & password, press Connect. I get : Connection Failed. Unknown user, incorrect password, or login is disabled. Please retype the name and password or contact the server's administrator.

What did I miss? If I connect as Guest, I only see the Drop Box in the Public folder.

[liquidsilver6840]

If you are connecting to Computer B, you need to authenticate as a Computer B user..

[cms]

Instead of connecting from the Network window, in Finder select "Connect to Server" from the Go drop-down menu. Type Computer B's LAN IP address in the box, select Registered User and enter Computer B's user name and password. Tick to remember in keychain. A list of all available volumes will then appear, and you can then mount whichever of them you want. For a quick connection next time round, drag the volume icon that appears on your desktop once the drive is mounted into your dock to the right of the divider (next to the Trash bin), and all you'll have to do next time is click on the dock icon to mount the drive.

[Simon]

• In the Finder hit cmd-k
• In the server address field enter afp://UserB@MacB.local/Share where UserB is a user account on the remote Mac, MacB is the name of the remote Mac (check it on the remote Mac in System Prefs > Sharing > Computer Name), and Share is the name of the partition or user home you're trying to mount.