Connecting Mac book pro to power mac via wireless network

I've bought a mac book pro and am now trying to transfer some files from my old power mac to the mac book, yesterday all I did was turn file sharing on and use finder to connect to the mac book through network on the side bar.
Today I try the same thing and it says "The server may not exist or it is not operational at this time. Check the server name or IP address and try again."
I'm not interested in a work around I can probably find one myself, what I would like to know is where can I check what the power mac thinks the IP address of the mac book is? I can see the server name and that's right and I know the sharing options are the same as yesterday, Mac OS suggests you check these things but as I didn't set them and it found them on its own, where are they?
P.S. Why does it also offer me the option to "Fix Alias" for a network item when all that does is open finder for this computers so I can point it at something on the hard drive?
Message was edited by: John Cooper

John Cooper wrote:
I've bought a mac book pro and am now trying to transfer some files from my old power mac to the mac book, yesterday all I did was turn file sharing on and use finder to connect to the mac book through network on the side bar.
Today I try the same thing and it says "The server may not exist or it is not operational at this time. Check the server name or IP address and try again."
I'm not interested in a work around I can probably find one myself, what I would like to know is where can I check what the power mac thinks the IP address of the mac book is? I can see the server name and that's right and I know the sharing options are the same as yesterday, Mac OS suggests you check these things but as I didn't set them and it found them on its own, where are they?
I suspect that you are using DHCP to distribute ip addresses on you LAN and that the MBP has a different ip address today than it did yesterday. You can find the new ip in the Network pane of System Preferences on the MBP. I can't figure out how to find out what the client thinks the ip of the MBP is, though. ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist contains an entry for the last server connected to, for example, but it doesn't seem to include the ip. I deleted a bunch of obsolete files from ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost recently, though, which might have included this so you might look there.
P.S. Why does it also offer me the option to "Fix Alias" for a network item when all that does is open finder for this computers so I can point it at something on the hard drive?
No idea.
- cfr
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