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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / March 2006External Hard Drive
I have a Western Digital hard drive connected via USB to my G4 tower, don't know all the little names for the different machines, but it has a 500mhz processor. I am running Tiger with all of the updates current. I have the tower connected to my Belkin wireless router by cat5. I also connect my iBook via wireless to the Mac. From the iBook I want to be able to access the WD hard drive. Somewhere on the newsgroups I read about using SharePoints Automounter. I loaded it on my iBook, I still cannot see the WD drive. Does anyone else have a suggestion? I really want this work. TK > I have a Western Digital hard drive connected via USB to my G4 tower, > don't know all the little names for the different machines, but it has [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > TK SP Automounter is the (optional) second half of the equation which lets you mount a shared drive when you log in (actually, I think it may do it on startup, but I'm not positive). Step one is that the volume/folder has to be shared in the first place. For that you need the same developer's other tool, just called SharePoints. Or you can do it by hand messing with NetInfo Manager (in /Applications/Utilities).  Signature"Congurutulation!!!" - The subject line on some spam I received recently. I have no idea what it means, but it's such a cool "word" (by which I mean pronouncable sequence of letters) regardless. > SP Automounter is the (optional) second half of the equation which > lets you mount a shared drive when you log in (actually, I think it [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > SharePoints. Or you can do it by hand messing with NetInfo Manager (in > /Applications/Utilities). Depending on who you log in as, this may not be necessary. If you log in to a remote system as an ordinary user, you can mount that user's home directory, and other users' public directories. If you log in as an administrator, you can also mount the root-level drives. You only need a utility (or NetInfo hack) if you want to share a volume for non-administrative users. -- David I want thank y'all for the responses. I downloaded Sharepoints and followed the installation instructions to point to the external drive. I rebooted the machine. On the iBook I installed Sharepoints Automount, I can see the drive, but cannot access it. I moved the USB drive to the XP-Pro computer. Both Mac computers can see and access the drive so I am leaving it there. I went back and uninstalled all of the Sharepoint software. I did reboots on both machines. I have a new problem. I cannot double-click or otherwise click on the desktop icons to open them. I can Ctrl-Click and then use the open command to open the items. I can click on menu items and dock items. I don't understand what has happened, or how to fix it. > I have a new problem. I cannot double-click or otherwise click on the > desktop icons to open them. I can Ctrl-Click and then use the open > command to open the items. I can click on menu items and dock items. > I don't understand what has happened, or how to fix it. I can only think of the obvious: Have you checked the mouse settings in the system preferences to make sure the double-click speed isn't too fast for your hands? -- David Thanks for the response David. When I did get a response in the day or two after, I went exploring. By setting the double click speed to slowest it is now working again. One thing I didn't mention was that I was testing the use of Sidetrack. I do not use much shareware these days, but this is one I like. If only they could map a left-click zone separate from a right-click zone separate from the scroll zone I would be thrilled. Yes, I want my cake and to eat it too. TK |
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