Thanks for all the suggestions from everyone.
On my husband's ibook, can see my computer ( powerbook) and access
by Guest or user. However, on mine, can't see my husband's computer
at all have to connect using "connect to server" Setup in sharing is
same on both!
Weird!
Rosemary
On 5 Jan 2006, at 15:22, RT
Ronda Brown wrote:
On 05/01/2006, at 8:35 AM, Rosemary Horton wrote:
Can someone give me a step by step description of how to share
files from one computer to another (2 macs..1 powerbook, 1
ibook) ? We both connect to the airport successfully. Really
simple instructions please from the beginning, for a relatively
new mac user. How would a visitor join the network?
Hi Rosemary,
The first step is: on each computer, go into System Preferences,
then Sharing, and turn on "Personal File Sharing". On that page,
you'll see, at the top, the computer's name (which you can change),
and at the bottom, the IP number (eg 10.0.1.2), which you may need
as an alternative.
Then, on each computer, go to Finder - Go & click on Network. You
may straightaway see the other computer appear - you can click on
it, click "Connect", and then either log in as a user (it has to be
a user that's been set up on that machine), or a guest.
As a guest, you can access all Public folders on the computer.
As a user, you can access that user's Home folder
As an admin user, you can access the whole hard drive.
So, if you have different user accounts set up on the computers,
it's best to use Guest access and then put the files you're sharing
in your user's Public folder.
Now, if that computer doesn't immediately appear, go to the Finder,
click cmd-K (to open the Connect to Server dialogue), and type in
afp://ip-address-of-other-computer
eg afp://10.0.1.2
You'll then get the same login dialogue as above.
Cheers,
Ronni
