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Can't see External Drive on Network

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FlaminMoe

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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?
 
FlaminMoe said:
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?
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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.

🙁
 
FlaminMoe said:
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?
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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.

🙂
 
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