Home Network and accessing all hard drives on the network

Question

In 10.4, when connecting to another computer on my network, I was able to connect to any disk drive that was connected to any computer on my network. With 10.5, it seems I cannot do that. All I seem to be able to connect to is the home account (in my case, frankmlinar). Did something change or is there a setting I do not know about?
One of the reasons I ask is that I serve my own web site, which is located at .../library/WebServer on one of my computers. I want to be able to access the files from wherever I am. I also like access to all files at any time without running all over the place.

Answer 1

It sounds like you are logged in as Guest (which only has access to each users home directory and drop box). If your navigating to the server via Shared in the sidebar, it should say the name of the user you are logged into that server as. It defaults to Guest. If it is Guest, click the Connect As button and log in as the desired user. You should then be able to see the share points (hard drives etc) you expected.
{quote:title=frankmlinar wrote:}My definition of persistent for use below is: When logged on as a registered user, the computer remains logged on and does not revert to Guest when clicking on various computers or drives in the finder and then returning to the logged on computer in the finder.{quote}
So this is the behavior you want. Correct? You want to only log in once and not have it revert back to being logged in as Guest if you navigate somewhere else and then back again? Correct
So, what you are seeing is this:
Step 1) Click on the server in the sidebar. It automatically, by default, logs you in as Guest.
Step 2) Click on the Connect As button and an Authentication dialog will appear. Login as another user (say Bob).
Note: You should be able to see the share points with no problem.
Step 3) Click on the "Desktop" entry in the sidebar
Step 4) Click on the same server as in Step 1 in the sidebar
Expected results: It will log you in as Bob.
Actual results: It will log you in as Guest.
This is behaving correctly (and is how AFP works). If you want it to remain logged in as Bob after Step 4, either create a keychain via the authentication dialog in Step 2 or before Step 3 you double clicked one of the hard drives listed for that server (or single clicked if your in Column View) to mount it.
Just logging in to an AFP server creates a temporary/soft connection with the server, you have to mount something to make it a solid connection.