connect to server always so sloooow

[27 houdini's]

Trying to connect to other Apple computers on a LAN, using either airport or a direct ethernet link, is always a annoyingly slow procedure. Computers show up in the lists only after minutes, and creating the actual connection produces an almost eternally spinning ball. It sometimes takes ages to connect.

You may assume that the setup is the easiest and foolproof one: appletalk activated on both computers, personal file sharing on, a direct connection via ethernet or via airport.

I have seen this connection problems on many OS's (10.3 10.4) on various computers.

I really find this annoying, why can't apple supply a fool proof quick connection system/ procedure?

Maybe it's just one switch I have to flick that i may have forgotten?

 

[ora]

Hmmn, not sure what you mean by waiting for the computers to appear. I connect via the apple-k command then do afp://IP-of-target-macine and that finds it quickly

In the Sharing pane of System Prefernces you can also set shortnames for your machine so you can do afp://mycomputer.local . Might speed things a bit