Help - Snow Leopard can't access Tiger network folders

[ngcomputing]

I have Snow Leopard (currently 10.6.1) running on my macbook and I have Tiger 10.4.11 running on a mac mini with a firewire drive attached mounted as DATA. On the mini, I set the permissions for read/write access and have personal file sharing turned on.

When I use finder on Snow Leopard I can log in and see the shared drive located on the mini. However, when I try to open the drive I get this message...

"the operation can't be completed because the original item for DATA can't be found"

I've tried disabling the password on the mini, creating a new account, and even setting the DATA volume to allow "everyone" access -- disabled the firewall, everything I can think of and get the same error. I've also set permissions on other folders with the same results to rule out a problem with the fw drive.

Any suggestions? All was working fine with Leopard, but, since installing Snow Leopard I can't get it to let me open shared tiger folders.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Btw, I can do the reverse, that is enable file sharing on Snow Leopard and access those files from the mini, just not the other way around.

I've scoured google trying to find a solution all I come up with are issues with SL and Windows, nothing for SL and Tiger.

[Natobasso]

What kind of firewire hard drive is it?

[ngcomputing]

Has nothing to do with the firewire drive or hardware ... forget that.

I can set up a folder on the mini (like on the desktop or documents folder), set the permissions, etc, and still have the same issue. It's not a hardware problem, it comes down to Snow Leapord will connect to a Tiger system, you log in, the folders are displayed in SL finder, but when you try to open them, won't fly.

[Natobasso]

Some possible answers:
http://ryanblock.com/2007/11/leopard...d-windows-smb/

and an apple discussion thread here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread....199573#8199573

[ngcomputing]

Dude, I'm not talking about SMB and Windows and I've been through all the threads at apple and every forum ... tireless google searches that come up with nothing.

Forget the firewire drive ~ gone forgotten disconnected ~ forget the hardware, forget I even mentioned a firewire drive.

The point I'm making is that I have snow leopard on a macbook w/all updates and tiger w/all updates on a mac mini. Snow leopard won't let me access shared folders or files on any mac on the network that is running Tiger.

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Can you try enabling, in the "Sharing" pane of the System Preferences on the Tiger machine, the "Remote Access" service (ssh, basically)?

Then, try sshing from the Snow Leopard machine to the Tiger machine. Can you successfully make an ssh connection? If so, perhaps there is some incompatibility with Snow Leopard and Tiger in terms of AFP and AFP shares -- but if not, then I would first suspect something wonky with your network and/or firewalls on one machine or the other.

[ngcomputing]

I just installed Snow Leopard on the mini and all is well. Still though, for someone searching like I did on this issue regarding connecting a Snow Leopard OS/X machine to a Tiger machines shared folders is unresolved.

[Natobasso]

I'd prefer it next time if you just simply ignored me rather than calling me dude and being negative, thanks.