Trouble Sharing Firewire Drive Over Airport

[xjohn]

I feel like this is a simple problem that I should be able to solve myself, but I can't seem to figure it out, so I'm turning to folks here for help.

1. I'm sharing my ADSL connection from my iBook to my Powerbook over airport.

2. I have an external Firewire drive (250GB) attached to the iBook.

3. I want to access it from the Powerbook.

4. The iBook HD shows up under "Network" on the Powerbook, but the external drive isn't available as one of the shares.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

John

 

[xjohn]

Extra, maybe relevant info:

The Powerbook's running 10.4.7.
The iBook's running 10.3.9

 

[elfin buddy]

Just a hunch here, but if you can mount the iBook's hard drive on the PowerBook, then couldn't you go into the /Volumes directory and access the external hard drive from there?

EDIT: Just tried that accessing a remote host through FTP. It seems as if it should work for you too, as far as I can tell.

In case you're not familiar with the Terminal, here's what you do:

1) Set up your network and computers as you would like them.
2) Open Terminal.app (in Utilities by default)
3) Type exactly as you see here and hit return when you see [return]

[i]cd /Volumes/[/i]"iBook's hard drive name here in quotes"[i]/Volumes/[/i]"external hard drive name here in quotes" [return]
open . [return]

Don't forget that "." in the second line of code. Crucial for getting yourself back to the Aqua-goodness of Mac OS X

 

[playaj82]

This might be a software issue.

Firewall, correct Sharing Settings

Or the easy solution....

Take the external drive from the iBook and hook it to the Powerbook

 

[xjohn]

Thanks for the suggestions!

What ended up working was logging. in to the iBook as a different user. I had been logging into it as a user without access to the drive.