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yuriwalkiw


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Today I was playing music off my iTunes library on my iMac G4. Suddenly I noticed that the library from my Powermac G5 showed up on my sources list. This has never happened before and I have not recently changed any settings.

Even more puzzling, my computers are not on a home network. I have no other way of accessing the other computer in OSX. Neither of the computers have an airport. The only way they could be connected is through an internet router. I like this new sharing functionality, but does this mean I can somehow set up a network through my internet router?
 
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20" iMac C2D 2.16ghz, 13" MacBook 2.0ghz, 60gb iPod vid, 1gb nano
Umm yea, thats what its for.

Search the forums for networking 2 macs and you should find plenty of information
 
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yuriwalkiw said:
Today I was playing music off my iTunes library on my iMac G4. Suddenly I noticed that the library from my Powermac G5 showed up on my sources list. This has never happened before and I have not recently changed any settings.

Even more puzzling, my computers are not on a home network. I have no other way of accessing the other computer in OSX. Neither of the computers have an airport. The only way they could be connected is through an internet router. I like this new sharing functionality, but does this mean I can somehow set up a network through my internet router?
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You can configure iTunes to share your music library which basically means you can access that library from another computer via a network.

There's a chance you have sharing enabled on the other computer.
 
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i'm on a network which u have to hand in ur ethernet id to get onto it i only handed in my airport's one cos u have to pay for it by computer i put in my airports one so i could use numerious computers if needs be. my problem is that if i connect my laptop directly via cable to the network port (i can't use the internet when connected directly to the port via cable) i can see other ppls itunes music and play it but when i have my own airport running as a branch off i can't can i get the best of both.
 

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