Forums
New posts
Articles
Product Reviews
Policies
FAQ
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Other Apple Products
Other Hardware and Peripherals
External drive sharing
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Bill2reg" data-source="post: 755212" data-attributes="member: 61560"><p><strong>External HD Sharing</strong></p><p></p><p>I hope this is the correct forum for my question. Home network of Mac G3 w/ Tiger, PC with XP and notebook with Vista. Mac has 2 external firewire hard drives daisy-chained formatted as FAT32. Windows sharing is turned on and I can log into the Mac from either of the Windows machines as Admin user. Neither of the external drives shows up on the network. All that I can share is the Mac desktop and files/folders on the desktop. Although both HD icons are on the desktop, they do not show up on the network. I also have an external hard drive connected to my XP desktop which shows up on any network machine with full read/write capabilities no problem. All I had to do in XP was right-click the drive and go to sharing and turn it on. Mac seems much more difficult, or is it impossible? Any help is appreciated and if this is the wrong forum I apologize for the error and welcome info as to where I should post. Thanks in advance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bill2reg, post: 755212, member: 61560"] [b]External HD Sharing[/b] I hope this is the correct forum for my question. Home network of Mac G3 w/ Tiger, PC with XP and notebook with Vista. Mac has 2 external firewire hard drives daisy-chained formatted as FAT32. Windows sharing is turned on and I can log into the Mac from either of the Windows machines as Admin user. Neither of the external drives shows up on the network. All that I can share is the Mac desktop and files/folders on the desktop. Although both HD icons are on the desktop, they do not show up on the network. I also have an external hard drive connected to my XP desktop which shows up on any network machine with full read/write capabilities no problem. All I had to do in XP was right-click the drive and go to sharing and turn it on. Mac seems much more difficult, or is it impossible? Any help is appreciated and if this is the wrong forum I apologize for the error and welcome info as to where I should post. Thanks in advance. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Other Apple Products
Other Hardware and Peripherals
External drive sharing
Top