Lacie drive in a Network?

I have an eMac which is connected to my wireless router via an ethernet cable and I have an iMac that is wirelessly connected to my router. I was wondering how to have my Lacie external hard drive connected to my network so that I could access the drive from my iMac. Thanks for the help.

Set up file sharing on your eMac.
go to System Preferences > Sharing and enable file sharing.
Then go to System Preferences > Network and make sure AppleTalk is on on the ethernet port on the eMac and the Airport port on the iMac.

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    Hi,
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    Hi V.K.-
    I have a 2TB Lacie 2Big NAS drive, hooked to a Linksys router, that I thought (based on this forum) would not work with Time Machine. Last night, I found in the "share" properties, a box to check to make it the "share" compatible with Time Machine. I checked the box and Time Machine recognized the NAS drive "share" and was able to use it with no issues (so far) - I have my mac tied to the router with an ethernet cable. Lacie explicitly says on its product info page that this drive is "compatible with Time Machine" and it appears it is...
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    now, all that said, there are a few 3rd party NAS devices that came out relatively recently (that includes your Lacie NAS) that claim to support TM backups. they have no blessings from apple to say such things but TM does seem to work and work quite well with such devices. for example, I don't think I've heard any complaints about problems with your Lacie NAS model as a TM drive.
    so that's how things stand. AFAIK, the reason why some NASes work and others don't with TM are mostly technical and have to do with whether or not a particular NAS model implements all the features of afp that TM needs to work correctly.

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    Hi,
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    Hi, Im new at this and would like to know how do I connect my second 1TB LaCie drive to my 24" iMac. Im not sure if I need to connect it directly to my current LaCie drive since my iMac does not have a second firewire 800 port. Also, should I disconnect the old one to format the new one before?

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  • Using time capsule to backup FCP files on External Lacie drives

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