michaelcowie
Registered
I have a MacBook (Intel 1.83 GHz Core 2 Duo) and an iMac (2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) and I can access the entire MacBook's file structure when I access it via the finder's "connect as" feature. I could do the same thing when I connected with the MacBook to the iMac, but a couple months ago I stopped being able to do this.
One notable difference is, when I click the "connect as" button on the iMac I get a dialogue box that lets me enter the username and password. On the MacBook, I get no such dialogue - the finder simply tries to connect (spinning wheel in the bottom of the finder window, "connecting..." displays above the button) but it never seems to time out or stop.
I have checked the sharing configuration on both machines, and they seem identical - I can't find a single setting that is causing the disparity and therefore the one-sided connection problem. After quite a few searches online, I also found some advice that suggested I delete old keys related to this in my Keychain and use the Keychain Manager to repair all the existing ones. I did this, re-started the machine, and still no joy. All permissions have been repaired since I did this - no difference.
While I suspect this is a system issue, I doubt it - the system has been re-installed completely off the same disc as the iMac, and is running the same latest revision of 10.5 as the MacBook. There seems to be no real difference - and as you can see from this email, I can connect to the internet on the same network, and have no other problems - I can even Screen Share with the iMac (which seems stupid, as it lets me completely control the iMac from the MacBook, but I can't access the files directly and run them in the MacBook.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated - this problem actually defeats most of the rationale for having the MacBook in the first place, and makes the file-syncing applications I have next to useless.
One notable difference is, when I click the "connect as" button on the iMac I get a dialogue box that lets me enter the username and password. On the MacBook, I get no such dialogue - the finder simply tries to connect (spinning wheel in the bottom of the finder window, "connecting..." displays above the button) but it never seems to time out or stop.
I have checked the sharing configuration on both machines, and they seem identical - I can't find a single setting that is causing the disparity and therefore the one-sided connection problem. After quite a few searches online, I also found some advice that suggested I delete old keys related to this in my Keychain and use the Keychain Manager to repair all the existing ones. I did this, re-started the machine, and still no joy. All permissions have been repaired since I did this - no difference.
While I suspect this is a system issue, I doubt it - the system has been re-installed completely off the same disc as the iMac, and is running the same latest revision of 10.5 as the MacBook. There seems to be no real difference - and as you can see from this email, I can connect to the internet on the same network, and have no other problems - I can even Screen Share with the iMac (which seems stupid, as it lets me completely control the iMac from the MacBook, but I can't access the files directly and run them in the MacBook.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated - this problem actually defeats most of the rationale for having the MacBook in the first place, and makes the file-syncing applications I have next to useless.
