I have 2 networked Macs - a MacBook Pro (2.53Ghz Core Duo) and an iMac 2.8Ghz i7 both running 10.6.8 which up until today had been happily networked (direct connection via ethernet cable). The iMac has 3 external disks (2 X Fat 32, and 1 X Mac OS Extended - Journaled) connected to it. Normally all disks were able to be seen & read & written by both computers. The laptop also runs XP on Parallels which also had no trouble accessing and reading/writing. (But now it can't see them either)
However for the past couple of days the 2 Fat32 disks connected to the iMac have dissappeared and cannot be accessed by the laptop over the network. The disks are mounted and working fine, and can be used normally by the iMac. The iMac can be found and accessed by the laptop via 'Shared' locations in Finder, and by Connecting using 'Go' > 'Connect to Server'. HOWEVER, in both these cases the external disks do not show up. The desktop, public folder, Documents folder, AND the Mac OS Extended External HDD do show up).
I have checked the permissions on both disks and they show that everyone can read and write BUT that info is greyed out - and I cannot access it to change/alter/update/reset. I thought this may be the cause, so I even just downloaded 'FileXaminer' after hours of forum searching around this problem - but that has been unable to help. I tried using Terminal and apply the steps mentioned HERE, but still no good.
PLEASE - can anyone help me figure this out??
Here's a screen cap of the info:
However for the past couple of days the 2 Fat32 disks connected to the iMac have dissappeared and cannot be accessed by the laptop over the network. The disks are mounted and working fine, and can be used normally by the iMac. The iMac can be found and accessed by the laptop via 'Shared' locations in Finder, and by Connecting using 'Go' > 'Connect to Server'. HOWEVER, in both these cases the external disks do not show up. The desktop, public folder, Documents folder, AND the Mac OS Extended External HDD do show up).
I have checked the permissions on both disks and they show that everyone can read and write BUT that info is greyed out - and I cannot access it to change/alter/update/reset. I thought this may be the cause, so I even just downloaded 'FileXaminer' after hours of forum searching around this problem - but that has been unable to help. I tried using Terminal and apply the steps mentioned HERE, but still no good.
PLEASE - can anyone help me figure this out??
Here's a screen cap of the info:
