Can't see External Drive on Network

[FlaminMoe]

I just bought myself a Mac Mini, and have my external firewire drive with all my movies, music etc plugged into it. I'm trying to access the drive via my PowerBook over wireless network, but I can't see it. It doesn't appear as an available mount point when I connect to the Mac Mini. I'm connecting with a user (not guest, although I've tried that as well) account. I've got Personal File Sharing, as well as Windows Sharing turned on. The drive format is MS-DOS(FAT32), if that makes any difference.

What am I doing wrong?

[Danksi]

I just bought myself a Mac Mini, and have my external firewire drive with all my movies, music etc plugged into it. I'm trying to access the drive via my PowerBook over wireless network, but I can't see it. It doesn't appear as an available mount point when I connect to the Mac Mini. I'm connecting with a user (not guest, although I've tried that as well) account. I've got Personal File Sharing, as well as Windows Sharing turned on. The drive format is MS-DOS(FAT32), if that makes any difference.

What am I doing wrong?

I tried this myself a while ago, but couldn't get it to work either. It was connected to my iMac, tried accessing from both my iBook and XP Pro machine. No go.

:(

[Danksi]

I just bought myself a Mac Mini, and have my external firewire drive with all my movies, music etc plugged into it. I'm trying to access the drive via my PowerBook over wireless network, but I can't see it. It doesn't appear as an available mount point when I connect to the Mac Mini. I'm connecting with a user (not guest, although I've tried that as well) account. I've got Personal File Sharing, as well as Windows Sharing turned on. The drive format is MS-DOS(FAT32), if that makes any difference.

What am I doing wrong?

Recently found a very easy to use solution:-

http://www.hornware.com/sharepoints/

I have an external USB drive connected to my iMac. Then accessing it via Wi-Fi from both an iBook and Windows XP Pro machine. Works well.

:)

[jeremy.king]

http://www.hornware.com/sharepoints/


+1

By default OS X will not share anything outside of your Shared folder. To make another folder or volume accessible you can either muck with config files, or just use sharepoints...

[krbshappy71]

EXACTLY what I needed, thanks guys.