Best way to share files with 2 powerbooks

Hello, I have 2 powerbooks 15" 1.67, the first one is running 10.39 the 2nd is 10.46,
I would like to be able to share files between the 2, will it be as easy as just connecting a cable between the 2? I know how to connect one of them as an external using firewire but I would like both systems to be on...do i need to update the 10.39 to 10.46 first?

The answer is NO.
You do not need to have both on the same OS version...
They are seperate machines and each OS handels stuff that takes care of all this. In fact you can do this from PC to Mac, which are different too.
Assuming that you have a switch/router that both machines are both hooked into, then you don't need firewire - just ethernet, which is how I network mine together...
Then from what I remember go into one of the machines.. from the system preferences go to file sharing and turn personal file sharing on.
From the other machine with finder on the top bar cliock on "GO" then connect to server. Browse to find the other machine.
Again it has been a while, and I don't have 2 machines currently running, but I recall that you need to copy and paste, or else you end up drragging the files from one to the other.
I usually turn the sharing off when I'm not actually moving stuff around, probably good to have a firewall somewhere shield it from outside of your 'network'.

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