I am connecting two computers to the internet through a router. Both computers have no problem reaching the internet at large, but they have problems talking to each other.
The router will assign IP addresses such as 192.168.1.100 to one computer and 192.168.1.101 to the other. According to everything I have read, this would mean that the two computers are on the same local network, and should be talking to each other via bonjour, or something.
The problem is that they usually don't find each other. Sometimes one of them will show up under "Network" in the finder window of the other, and then I can connect, and transfer files across, etc.
Sometimes they won't see each other at all. Sometimes, it seems to help to activate apple talk on one or both computers, which I find strange, because I read that they shouldn't need apple talk to see each other.
The worst is that I cannot really find a pattern. Sometimes things work, sometimes they don't. Once I managed to get them both to see each other at the same time, and I was able to connect to each from the other, but even then, they weren't sharing their itunes music folders, even though I carefully followed all instructions to set up music sharing.
I am thoroughly stumped and confused. Any help would be appreciated.
I have a G5 power mac (1.6 GHz) and a G4 powerbook 15 inches. Both are running tiger. The router is linksys.
Best wishes,
Kai
The router will assign IP addresses such as 192.168.1.100 to one computer and 192.168.1.101 to the other. According to everything I have read, this would mean that the two computers are on the same local network, and should be talking to each other via bonjour, or something.
The problem is that they usually don't find each other. Sometimes one of them will show up under "Network" in the finder window of the other, and then I can connect, and transfer files across, etc.
Sometimes they won't see each other at all. Sometimes, it seems to help to activate apple talk on one or both computers, which I find strange, because I read that they shouldn't need apple talk to see each other.
The worst is that I cannot really find a pattern. Sometimes things work, sometimes they don't. Once I managed to get them both to see each other at the same time, and I was able to connect to each from the other, but even then, they weren't sharing their itunes music folders, even though I carefully followed all instructions to set up music sharing.
I am thoroughly stumped and confused. Any help would be appreciated.
I have a G5 power mac (1.6 GHz) and a G4 powerbook 15 inches. Both are running tiger. The router is linksys.
Best wishes,
Kai