Sharing Thunderbolt HDD

[mediamab]

Hi,

We will soon have 2 thunderbolt macs - both are laptops. We would like to get an external HDD a d share this. Can we do this and have both directly connected or do we need to keep changing the cable? We will both have the thunderbolt display so would be great if we just plug the screen in and both have direct connection from that to the drive.

Thanks in advance!

 

[669532]

Let me just get this straight,

You have two laptops + 2 thunderbolt displays?
You don't want to share the drive on the network?

Which thunderbolt device are you thinking of buying?

Are you going to have enough thunderbolt ports? most laptops only have one, is one machine going to be the new macbook pro?

 

[radiogoober]

Hi,

We will soon have 2 thunderbolt macs - both are laptops. We would like to get an external HDD a d share this. Can we do this and have both directly connected or do we need to keep changing the cable? We will both have the thunderbolt display so would be great if we just plug the screen in and both have direct connection from that to the drive.

Thanks in advance!

Yes you can share the drive fine. You will simply plug it into one of the macs, then toto system preferences, sharing, then enable file sharing and add the external drive as a share. A few clicks and it's done.

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Let me just get this straight,

You have two laptops + 2 thunderbolt displays?
You don't want to share the drive on the network?

Which thunderbolt device are you thinking of buying?

Are you going to have enough thunderbolt ports? most laptops only have one, is one machine going to be the new macbook pro?

Irrelevant. The thunderbolt displays have an additional thunderbolt port to allow for daisy chaining thunderbolt devices.