HELP! mounting laptop as external drive

I just bought my Macbook Pro (used) and I want to mount it as an external drive from my old G4 running on OSX 10.3.9
I have a firewire cable to link them but I don't know how to launch either one on the other desktop.
HELP!!

yeah, not working.
It is a desktop G4, not powerbook. Does this matter? Is there some way to refresh the desktop or something to get it to appear? I have the firewire logo bouncing around on the desktop monitor but no indication that it has mounted on the MBP.
I tried it the other way as well - same issue.

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