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Screen sharing over firewire
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I'd like to control my iMac running 10.4.8 with my MacBook Pro running Lion 10.7.2. It seems this sure be dead easy but I cannot make it work. They are connected by Firewire cable, both recognize that they are. But the Lion machine doesn't see the Tiger machine even though I've checked allow Remote Desktop Connection on it. Any tricks or secrets that I'm missing? I'd like to do it as "directly" as possible without installing additional software on each machine.
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I think you're going to need ethernet to do it. I use it between my MDD G4 and Mac Pro 1,1 via an Airport Extreme and it works fine. Is the screensharing button available when you goto your iMac?
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Silly question, but...you have enabled TCP/IP networking on both machines, right?
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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Originally Posted by P 
Silly question, but...you have enabled TCP/IP networking on both machines, right?
Under SystemPreferences,Networking,Firewire :
Both machines have:
Configure IPv4: Using DHCP
DHCP Client IP: Blank
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Thats a no then. You need to configure TCP/IP firewire in order to make screen sharing work. You'll need to set the IP addresses and subnet masks manually.
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I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
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Yes, exactly. You have no DHCP server running on the subnet (the subnet here is your two machines), so disable DHCP and set it up manually. For example: Machine one has IP-address 192.168.1.1, subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and gateway and DHCP empty. Machine two has IP-address 192.168.1.2 and the rest empty. That should do it, and if Bonjour won't pick it up, use Connect to Server in Finder with the IP-address directly.
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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Thanks P and War-a-s . After a few false starts I got it working perfectly thanks to your help. The only quirky part was that I had to enable access by the Apple Remote Desktop program even though I wasn't using it. A few false tries to figure that out. Probably because I am using 10.4 on the machine. I could move up to Leopard but then one piece of software that I occasionally use doesn't work--but I may eventually go that route. Now that Lion works within Parallels its a pity that one can't get Leopard to work there as well.
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Originally Posted by mduell
Why not use ethernet?
Sometimes I have the ethernet port tied up. Shouldn't Firewire be as fast?
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No, but the difference isn't significant for your use.
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