Trouble Sharing Firewire Drive Over Airport

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]

Code:

[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

 

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