two macs not talking

hi

can anyone run me through whats not happening when it should?

the set up is an imacg5 and iBook with airport extreme and a belkin wireless router

all i want is the two macs to share hard drives. the internet connections are fine extreme card picks up the belkin easily but the two macs dont see each other when i trying connecting via server addresses e.g. 192.168.2.2?

when i put them both side by side i did manage to get the two seeing each other but now nothing?

any advice on where to look or start would be appreciated

kind regards

I assume Personal File Sharing is turned on in System Preferences > Sharing

If you can ping the other machine via IP and Sharing is on you should be prompted for a username and pass when trying to connect. If you can't ping it you're not going to connect. Start there.

If ping test succeeds, and Sharing is turned on (both machines) try cmd+k
afp://yourIP

If that is no good try a port scan using Network Utility. You're looking for port 548 being open.

MacsWork said:

I assume Personal File Sharing is turned on in System Preferences > Sharing

If you can ping the other machine via IP and Sharing is on you should be prompted for a username and pass when trying to connect. If you can't ping it you're not going to connect. Start there.

If ping test succeeds, and Sharing is turned on (both machines) try cmd+k
afp://yourIP

If that is no good try a port scan using Network Utility. You're looking for port 548 being open.

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hi
thanks for the reply - how do i ping?
pardon my ignorance - file sharin on in both macs?

kind regards

hi

found ping and that seems to be ok i.e. 10 packets sent 10 received

port scan seems to show 548 is open

tried to connect again but cannot connect check ip exists is working

can you suggest any other steps to take or advice

kind regards

fire up a terminal window (applications>terminal)

then type
ping ip address and it should look something like this
Last login: Tue Aug 2 20:28:10 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
inflexion:~ matthewayres$ ping 10.0.0.2
PING 10.0.0.2 (10.0.0.2): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.0.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.823 ms


this will carry on forever so to stop it you just use ctrl+c and hopefully it will give you a responce

inflexion said:

fire up a terminal window (applications>terminal)

then type
ping ip address and it should look something like this
Last login: Tue Aug 2 20:28:10 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
inflexion:~ matthewayres$ ping 10.0.0.2
PING 10.0.0.2 (10.0.0.2): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.0.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.823 ms


this will carry on forever so to stop it you just use ctrl+c and hopefully it will give you a responce

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hi

tried this and a load of stuff came up
then stopped itself

what do i try now any suggestions?

kind regards

When you hit cmd+k in the finder you should get a connect to server window. Type the ip of the mac you wish to connect to there and click connect.

It should then prompt you for username and password. If it doesn't there's a problem. You may want to check your keychain access for possible corrupt entries regarding that IP/connection.


Try turning on ftp on both machines and hit cmd+k, then type ftp://ipaddress and see if you can at least connect that way.

did you get something like this though when you did a ping?
64 bytes from 10.0.0.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.823 ms

if so it means that they are physically connected and its just down to setup

inflexion said:

did you get something like this though when you did a ping?
64 bytes from 10.0.0.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.823 ms

if so it means that they are physically connected and its just down to setup

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hi inflexion and macswork

thank you for the replies it seems to be something intermittent
when i put the two macs side by side i got them to see each other
again.

i will keep plugging away as u have given me info to work on
and i,m learning more about it.

its great when they see each other but frustrating when they dont

kind regards