Connecting to desktop computer without airport?

Hi
I have a macbook and an imac g5, but the g5 does not currently have airport on it (although the macbook does). Is there a sensible way to connect my macbook to the desktop and how do I share files/ software etc?

When you attach the firewire cable you must first shut down the computer you want to access (with the cable attached) and hold down the "t" key while its booting, this will put the computer in "Disk Mode" (there should be a firewire symbol "dancing" around on a blue screen. Now, on your other computer, another hard drive will show up on the desktop, that is the one you want to access. You go inside this Hard drive just like your own, except you drag out the files you want.
If you are going to use a base station you could hardwire your G5 to it and wirelessly access it through your macbook, thought this would be significantly slower than connecting it through firewire. In this case, you would have to first go into system preferences, go to "sharing" and click start on both computers. Then go into "Macintosh HD", go to network at the top of the side bar, go into servers, and select the computer you want to access. It will ask you for a User name and password, the username is the name that shows up in your home folder. Assuming you are going to transfer data from the G5 to the macbook, you would want to go through this process on the G5 and drag the files you want into a folder on the macbook you have privilidges to access.
I am not completly certain what your intentions are, but if you want to quickly transfer data over, this is the way to do it (firewire is also much more simple to set up).
Note that when you are transfering applications over, just dragging over the icon in the Applications folder may not transfer all the data necessary for the application to run properly (such as Microsoft Office).

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So I've looked through the forums, over the interwebs, through the ARD PDF manuals online and I'm coming up short. Ugh.
I want to connect from my home laptop to my desktop at my small business where we're using an Airport Extreme for a router. I can NOT figure out how to get this configured to work. We use ARD within the business, so on the same network, no problems. With the router, I'm guessing I need to get the computer setup to have a locked in IP and whatnot but no where can I find the instructions that tell me EVERTHING I need to do. Can someone here point me in the right direction please or hit me over the head with a 2x4 of exact instructions!
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So the steps listed bellow assume some things. They assume that the Airport Extreme Router your configuring is connected directly to the internet connection. And that the Airport Extreme is the only router between your computers and the internet.
That means we're talking about say a DSL modem plugged directly into the Airport Extreme, or a cable modem. in ether case, this assumes that said modem, is not acting as an internet router.
If your modem has multiple ethernet ports on it, or has a little antenna sticking out of it, then your modem is probable also a router, and these steps listed bellow will probable not work.
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Open Airport Utility:
go to the dock
Click on the finder
go to the menu bar
Click on the "Go" menu
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double Click on "AirPort Utility"
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Double Click on your Airport Extreme BaseStation that is your internet connection router.
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Click the "Continue" button
For "DHCP Client ID:" set "ARD"
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Click the "Done" Button
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Click on the "+" button
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Click the "Continue" button
Click the "Done" button
Click the "+" button
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for "Private IP Address:" copy the exact IP address you wrote down in step "3. 8."
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Click the "+" button
For the pulldown menu "Service:" Chose "Remote Login - SSH"
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Click the "Update" button.
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Clock on the "Advanced…" button
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