Hi Matt Have you read the official Apple help file to “Share the screen of another Mac”?
https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/mac-help/mh14066/mac I also have three Macs of various vintages. Initially I a few problems with stability with the 3 Macs all sharing at the same time. Works perfectly with any combination of two. Cheers, Alan > On 15 May 2020, at 11:54 am, Matt Falvey <mmfal...@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > > Hi, I have three iMacs (one is a recent second hand one - 2013 HD) and I am > trying to transfer documents from one to the other. All show up as “Shared” > on the side bar of the finder window. > > With the two older iMacs when I click on the 2013 HD icon in Shared the > window in the next column opens and states the HD name and “Connection > Failed” and I have the option Connect As and Share Screen. When I try Connect > As and try to connect as the Registered User using the Name and Password, it > reverts to the previous screen, with the Connection Failed. > > (The two older iMacs connect to each other.) > > If I go to the 2013 HD finder window and click on either of the other two > HD’s they connect straight away and I am able to transfer files to the > respective computer. > > I have also have a problem with the new 2013 HD, which was posted last week, > with hindsight this may be associated to this problem and that is that when I > try to save files to one of the other iMacs I get a message “The document > “xxxxx.pdf” could not be exported as “ xxxxxxx.pdf” as You don’t have > Permission. To view or change permissions select the item in the Finder and > choose File > Get Info. Which needless to say doesn’t work. > > So it seems as if for whatever reason the other two are communicating inwards > with the 2013 HD but something is stopping it from being able to connect > outwards. > > I would be grateful if anyone has any ideas or solutions to share. > > Thanks > > Matt. > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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