Network connects then immediately disconnects

hello everyone,
when using my ibook i try to network with my mac pro. it lets me connect. then when i try to open the mounted drive, it disconnects, then will not let me re-mount the drive i get the connection failed error message.
both computers are tiger 10.4.11, no problem connecting to internet, get max signal strength, ibook uses airport extreme card, wireless modem is belkin g, i have run disk utility on both systems, mac pro is not "asleep", rebooted both computers... i think that covers it.
oh, on a side note. i am about the upgrade both to leopard. will that make a difference?
i thank you in advance for your help.

Hello Lisa,
Leopard may indeed fix this, but not for certain if course.
In finder, select Go menu>Go to Folder, and go to "/volumes".
Volumes is where an alias to your hard drive ("/" at boot) is placed at startup, and where all the "mount points" for auxiliary drives are created for you to access them. This folder is normally hidden from view.
Drives with an extra 1 on the end have a side-effect of mounting a drive with the same name as the system already think exists. Try trashing the duplicates with a 1, and reboot.
Find the IP of the MacPro in it's Network Pref Pane>TCP/IP tab. In finder on the iBook, select Go menu>Connect to Servers..., then on the iBook, type in afp://ip.of.the.MacPro, like...
afp://10.0.1.5
afp://192.168.1.3

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