In my case I have connected an external HDD to my MacMini and keep my big files there. Whenever I need to access them from the iMac I would connect to the Mini (It should display in Finder > Network once you unable sharing) as an Admin.
Important: To access the individual files make sure to give the correct permissions)
I can't connect to the drive via my powerbook... Is there something I need to have turned on? I can connect and get files from the main drive inside the computer, but not to any that are connected via firewire/usb...
First, what I suspect is the correct answer to your question.
Yes you can connect to the external drive connected to mac 1 over the network from mac 2 but you have to log into mac 1 via an administrators account.
ALSO, I highly suspect that the hard drive needs to be formated in Mac OS extended. I have had success accessing one of my external drives this way and am pretty sure I accessed a second succesfully in the past (both these were formatted in Mac OS extended). However, I have had nothing but frustration accessing the two others. The two I can't access are both FAT32 format.
Here's a question to whoever else is out there. I want to have a hard drive connected to Mac 1 which is natively readable by PCs AND which I can connect to over the network.
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