Acces to an external drive through a local net

I have 2 mac powerbook, connected through airport for the 1st, and ethernet for the 2nd. The 1st has some external drives connected to it, and I want the second to access these drives... I haven't found a way to do it... I guess it should be easy !
I have set up in the pref "share file mac" (not sure of the english words for it ! ), but I can access the 1st from the 2nd only as a user (through the finder "go to" the local net). Even if I log as an admin, I don't have access to the drives...
What has to be done ?
Big thanks
Jean Christophe

By default Mac OS X only shares certain directories on the main drive. You have to explictly tell it to share other volumes.
The easiest way to do this is to get a copy of SharePoints which is far easier than manually editing configuration files.

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AppleMan1958 wrote:
An external drive with Firewire, which is formatted Mac OS Extended (journaled) is your best bet. i.e. not FAT32.
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Thanks. I've just discovered that that particular device has an ethernet IN port so it's no good.
thanks for the info on formatting though - I didn't know that.
that can be done with the Disk Utility, can't it?
if I was using an external hard drive to store and access my iPhoto and iTunes libraries would they also need to be "Mac OS Extended (journaled)"??
regards

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I have a 2011 Macbook Air as my primary machine. Given it's small sized hard drive, I don't want any music or media to be on the local machine (if possible. So, I've done a few things over the years:
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(2) I have iCloud support for iTunes turned on
(3) I have iTunes Match turned on
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The first thing you need to do is properly move the iTunes media off the internal HDD of the MBA to the external HDD. This KB article will help you with that: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1449
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I apologize if this is obvious but I have searched for quite awhile without finding result.
I currently have my iTunes synced to my Macbook Pro. I purchased a Macbook Air for ease in travel. I would like to move sync of my material on iTunes to my Air as I carry it more with me.
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SElect the dublicate images and press ctrl-s (cmd-s on mac?). This saves you developments as xmp files. Now sync the target folder. Perhapst Lr states the dublicate images as missing - remove than.
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