Connecting 2 G5's Via Firewire

Is it possible to connect to G5 towers via a Firewire 400 cable, and have the 2 Hard drives in G5 A show up on the desktop of G5 B? I remeber reading something a long time ago that said you could do it with the Laptops, but its been so long that I don't remeber precisely how to do it......
Thanks in advanced for any help...

Connect them with a FireWire cable and use the Sharing and Network panes of System Preferences to create a FireWire network; you can also start up one computer with the T key held down, but this will only connect to the master hard drive on the ATA 0 bus, or shut that computer down if there is nothing at that location.
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