Hey there everyone. I recently added two Macs to my PC network (an eMac and an iMac G5, both with OS X Tiger). I bought a lacie porsche external hard drive for the iMac (it's firewire) and connected it to the iMac. My intention is to share the drive with all of the other computers on my network (including the PCs with WIndows XP)
So today, I downloaded and installed a program to allow me to share the drive (SharePoints by Hornware for Macs). I made the external HD a mountable volume. I also allowed sharing on the Mac.
The Windows computers connected to my iMac via its IP address and were then able to connect to the external HD and write/read from it. My eMac, however, was not. When I tried to connect the eMac to the iMac, it connected, and I was able to connect to the Macintosh HD, but it refused to recognize the external HD.
What could I be doing wrong? I'm still not completely familiar with the way Macs work (I've only used PCs until now) so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks!
So today, I downloaded and installed a program to allow me to share the drive (SharePoints by Hornware for Macs). I made the external HD a mountable volume. I also allowed sharing on the Mac.
The Windows computers connected to my iMac via its IP address and were then able to connect to the external HD and write/read from it. My eMac, however, was not. When I tried to connect the eMac to the iMac, it connected, and I was able to connect to the Macintosh HD, but it refused to recognize the external HD.
What could I be doing wrong? I'm still not completely familiar with the way Macs work (I've only used PCs until now) so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks!