Hi Ken, Boy I often find it difficult to follow you, and understand what your problem is, or what exactly you are wanting to do.
I take it you are not wanting to use ‘Target Disk Mode’ - Migration Assistant to ‘Migrate’ everything from your iMac to the MacBook Air. If you had wanted to do this you would have done it before you setup the MacBook Air. There are many ways to share files between two Macs. In System Preferences > Sharing have you turned on: Screen Sharing and File Sharing? The easiest way: AirDrop. Option A) - AirDrop AirDrop helps you share items with others nearby: Sharing files and folders with Macs Using AirDrop and File Sharing. AirDrop is available from the Finder, the Share menu, and in Open and Save windows. When you choose AirDrop, OS X looks for any nearby computers that have also selected AirDrop. Use one of the following methods to share a file wirelessly with another Mac nearby. AirDrop is a fast and easy file-sharing system that lets you send files to another Macintosh without any setup—no usernames, no passwords, nothing except Wi-Fi that is turned on! <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4783> ------ Option B) What used to be the easiest way: the Public folder. Every account holder has a Public folder. It’s free for anyone else on the network to access. There’s no password required. Super-convenient, super-easy. There’s only one downside, and you may not care about it: You have to move or copy files into the Public folder before anyone else can see them. Depending on how many files you want to share, this can get tedious, disrupt your standard organizational structure, and eat up disk space. Inside your Home folder, there’s a folder called Public. (Inside everybody’s Home folder is a folder called Public.) Anything you put into this folder is automatically available to everyone else on the network. They don’t need a password, they don’t need an account on your Mac— they just have to be on the same network, wireless or wired. They can put files here or copy things out. To make your Public folder available to your network users, you have to turn on the File Sharing. System Preferences, click Sharing, and then turn on File Sharing Then locate the files and folders you want to share with all comers on the network and drag them into your Home -Public folder. That’s all there is to it. ------ Option C) The flexible way: any folder. You can also make any file, folder, or disk available for inspection by other people on the network. This method means that you don’t have to move files into the Public folder, for starters. It also gives you elaborate control over who is allowed to do what to your files. You might want to permit a user to see and edit your documents, but allow others to just see them. And others you don’t want even seeing what’s in your shared folder. Of course, setting up all those levels of control means more work and more complexity. Sharing Any Folder If the Public-folder method seems too simple and restrictive, then you can graduate to the “share any folder” method. In this scheme, you can make any file, folder, or disk available to other people on the network. The advantage here is that you don’t have to move your files into the Public folder; they can sit right where you have them. And this time, you can set up elaborate shar- ing privileges (also known as permissions) that grant individuals different amounts of access to your files. This method is more complicated to set up than that Public-folder business. In fact, just to underline its complexity, Apple has created two different setup procedures. You can share one icon at a time by opening its Get Info window; or you can work in a master list of shared items in System Preferences. The System Preferences method It’s very convenient to turn on sharing one folder at a time, using the Get Info window. But there’s another way in, too, one that displays all your shared stuff in one handy master list. To see it, choose System Preferences. Click Sharing. Click File Sharing (and make sure it’s turned on). Now you’re looking at a slightly different kind of permissions table than the 'Get Info window' - It has three columns: Shared folders. The first column lists the files, folders, and disks you’ve shared. You’ll probably see that every account’s Public folder is already listed here, since they’re all shared automatically. (You can turn off sharing for a Public folder, too, just by clicking it and then clicking the - button.) But you can add more icons to this list. Either drag them into the list directly from the desktop or a Finder window, or click the + sign, navigate to the item you want to share, select it, and then click Add. Either way, that item now appears in the Shared Folders list. Users. When you click a shared item, the second column sprouts a list of who gets to work with it from across the network. You’re listed here, of course, since it’s your stuff. There’s also a listing here for Everyone, which really means, “everyone else”—that is, everyone who’s not specifically listed here. You can add to this list, too. Click + to open the person-selection box. It lists the other account holders on your Mac, and some predefined groups, as well as the contents of your Contacts. Double-click a person’s name to add her to the list of people who can access this item from over the network, and then set up the appropriate privileges. To remove someone from this list, just click the name and then click the - button. Users. This third column lets you specify how much access each person in the second column has to this folder. Your choices, once again, are Read & Write (full access to change or delete this item’s contents); Read Only (open or copy, but can’t edit or delete); and Write Only (Drop Box), which lets the person put things into this disk or folder, but not open it or see what else is in it. For the Everyone group, you also get an option called No Access, which means that this item is completely off limits to everyone else on the network. That should give you enough information. If not type a search in the 'Help Center' Menu in Finder. > I must have set it up with a WEP password, says: WPA2 Personal. Not WEP (it has been broken for years) - You have setup your Wi-Fi Network up with WPA2 Personal - (Wi-Fi Protected Access) - WPA2 is a more robust version of WPA, which it replaced. > IPv4 Address is: 192.168.0.7 > Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 > Router: 192.168.0.1 Yes, that is all correct. Cheers, Ronni 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage On 3 Sep 2014, at 3:41 pm, Ken Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ronni, > > Why are you trying to connect to your iMac from your MacBook Air? > > To transfer audio etc from 1 to the other. > > Aren't you trying to connect to your Home Apple Airport Wi-Fi Network? > > I'm connected, it took it's time but it's OK now. > > Joining you home Airport Wi-Fi Network has nothing to do with resetting the > root password on the iMac. > It also has nothing to do with one Mac running Mavericks and another running > Mountain Lion or any other device running iOS7 or iOS6. You should be running > a Airport Base Station Network. > > I am > > Are you sure you are trying to connect to the correct Wi-Fi Network? > In the Finder Menu bar under the Wi-Fi Symbol - Do you see your Wi-Fi Network > there and can select it? > If so is it showing full 4 bars connection > You should see any Wi-Fi Network that is within range. > > Yes , Network is connected..trying to connect directly to Imac for transfer > purposes. > > On your MacBook Air - > 1. Go to System Preferences > Network > Location: Automatic > > 2. Select the Wi-Fi connection in the list of network services on the left. > > 3. Click the Advanced button at the bottom right of the window. > In the Wi-Fi view’s Preferred Networks list, you’ll see every wireless > network you’ve ever used. > > I must have set it up with a WEP password, says: WPA2 Personal. > > This is where your Mac remembers Wi-Fi details that enable it to connect > automatically the next time that network is available. > Since this is the first Network you have connected to, it should only show > your Home Network > Make sure 'Remember networks this computer has joined' is selected > > Yes it's ticked. > > 4. Find the desired wireless network name in the list and select it. > > 6. Then click on TCP/IP > Configure IPv4: Using DHCP > IPv4 Address: 10.0.1.7 > Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 > Router: 10.0.1.1 > > IPv4 Address is: 192.168.0.7 > Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 > Router: 192.168.0.1 > > The Subnet Mask & Router Address should be the same on your iMac, the IPv4 > Address should be different. > > Thanks Ronni > > > -- > > Thanks & regards, > > > Ken Jackson > > > >
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