Networking x2 G5's, x1 Mac Mini & x1 G4 - HELP!!!

Hi Everyone,
I've come across a little problem whilst trying to network up my macs. Ok this is what I basically want to do...I want to use the Mac Mini as a 'server' and the rest of my macs as seperate design machines. This is how I want to do it...
G5 PowerMac (OS X 10.4) >
G5 PowerMac (OS X 10.4) > Mac Mini (OS X 10.4) | SERVER |
G4 PowerMac (OS9) >
I've been trying to connect them but all I can access is 'drop boxes' which isn't what I require - I need to be able to see the desktop etc. Does anyone know how I can do this?
Thanks,
Mark

aagh!
I know where you're coming from. Can be a bit frustrating when things do not go as one would expect.
Let me suggest an idea.
Let's turn off each computer's Personal File Sharing service.
Then shut down all the machines.
Then pick two machines to boot up. One will be the client the other will be the server. Turn on Personal File Sharing in those two machines. And let's get two machines to network successfully.
Remember, when you open a Finder window and click on the Network icon you are acting as a client looking for a server. I say that just to impress what we are doing with the computer when we are doing this process. I'm an audio guy and in audio it's all about signal flow but it's not so far different with this process. It's a workflow thing. Establish certain positives and then move on and expand.
If you are successful with the two computers then I would boot up the third computer, turn on its Personal File Sharing and try to network with the same server with which the original client computer is networking.
Building your network one computer at a time.
As for, the not mounting the Desktop issue; what I see happening on my machines is this; when I connect to my other machine I get the password dialog box, succeeding that I am offered the volumes available to mount. My computer displays the Macintosh HD for the serving computer and the user volume, in my case, michaelpannone.
I'll select my user volume, michaelpannone. That establishes itself in my client computer Finder Pane with a purple orb as its icon. I click on it and in the next column I am presented with a list of all the folders contained in that volume.
All of the folders are available to me. Now I just went into the Documents folder on the server computer, right clicked on the folder, clicked Get Info, and changed the owners permissions to No Access. When I try to open the folder on either computer I am presented with the dialog, -The folder "Documents" could not be opened because you do not have sufficient access privileges.-
Be sure all your permissions are Read and Write in those folders you want to access. Be sure you are the Owner in all the folders you want to access. I just looked in the Owner sub menu and I was surprised to see the many objects that could be set there. Double check this stuff.
And again do this interrogation one machine at a time and build your network one machine at a time. I hope you make some progress on this because these Macs seem to network quite easily. There has to be some config that just is not exactly as it should be. Good luck my friend.
12" Powerbook G4 1.5G, 1.25 G ram   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

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