Hi all. I am now the proud owner of a powerbook AND an iMac G5 (what can I say? I was so impressed with the PB I had to buy a desktop too!)...so I'm trying to figure out how to make the 2 machines communicate easily. I used a firewire connection to migrate the powerbook into the iMac (worked pretty well), and now I want to access everything within the 2 computers easily. What's the best way? I checked all the boxes under preferences for sharing (which kinda bugs me, since my network COULD be being used by the guy with the computer next door, right?), and I'm trying to hook up the wireless connection as well but I'm having a little trouble with the password (my password is correct, but it keeps giving me an error message). Is there any way that I can be using one computer and have the other just appear on the desktop as a device or something (like I do with my external HD?)? Or is it always a firewire thing? Also, I noticed that when I am plugged into the external with both computers...if I am transfering some file into the external with ONE computer, the other computer can't open up the external drives (I get a spinning beachball forever when I try to click on the external HD icon). Is this normal?
Also, my wife and I have 2 seperate accounts on both computers because we speak different languages, but we want to share all the iPhoto and iTunes stuff. Seems like it's difficult to accomplish this (her iTunes shows up on my side, but I can only listen to it, not edit or delete it...and only if iTunes is open on both sides). I'm trying to understand how to put everything we have into shared folders so we can both access everything. I tryed to do just that, but it didn't seem to work (I think I must have missed something). While we're on the subject, is there ANY way to set up both accounts so we DON'T have to enter a password to switch? Basically, we ONLY have two accounts so that one side shows only Japanese in all the menus and the other side shows only English...we want to share everything and have no need for security or passwords.
Any and all help would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance.
Also, my wife and I have 2 seperate accounts on both computers because we speak different languages, but we want to share all the iPhoto and iTunes stuff. Seems like it's difficult to accomplish this (her iTunes shows up on my side, but I can only listen to it, not edit or delete it...and only if iTunes is open on both sides). I'm trying to understand how to put everything we have into shared folders so we can both access everything. I tryed to do just that, but it didn't seem to work (I think I must have missed something). While we're on the subject, is there ANY way to set up both accounts so we DON'T have to enter a password to switch? Basically, we ONLY have two accounts so that one side shows only Japanese in all the menus and the other side shows only English...we want to share everything and have no need for security or passwords.
Any and all help would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance.