Recognizing other computer on the network

Question

I have an iMac (G3, 400 mHz) running 9.2.2 networked to an iBook G4 running 10.4.7. They are connected via a linksys wireless router: the iMac connection is by ethernet, the iBook usually by wireless, but sometimes I plug in an ethernet cable.
I followed the instructions in the Missing Manual for Tiger. They share an internet connection with no problem, and the iBook can find the iMac and I can move files back and forth if I'm at the iBook. But if I'm sitting at the iMac, I can't find the iBook. It doesn't show up either in the chooser or in the network browser. I've tried entering the iBook network name in the network browser, but the iMac tells me it can't find that address.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

Hi, Kabing -
Two main ways to create an alias to an item -
• Select the item by clicking on it once, then press Command-M (Make Alias from the File menu. An alias will appear next to the original; that alias can then be placed wherever you wish.
• Hold down the Command and Option keys, then drag the item to where you want the alias to be (onto the desktop or into another folder, for example) - instead of moving or copying the original, an alias to it will be created at the destination. One advantage of this method is that, as long as the destination is not the same folder as the original, the name for the alias stays the same as the original (that is, without "alias" being appended to it).
Yet another way, though less convenient - select the item by clicking once on it, then press Command-T (Add To Favorites in the File menu). An alias to the item will be added to the Favorites folder in System Folder.
This item is then selectable by going to Favorites in the Apple menu and selecting it from the Favorites submenu.
You can also relocate that alias to wherever you wish, by moving it or copying it.
Note that the Favorites submenu can be made into a well-organized tool by adding appropriately-named (according to your logic) folders in the Favorites folder in System Folder, and sorting the Favorites aliases into those folders.
If by chance the reason that making an alias is that the keyboard command(s) do not work when in Finder, and the items are not shown in the File menu, open Finder's Preferences (bottom of Edit menu), and on the General page uncheck the first item, Simple Finder. If that was checked, the change will occur immediately upon unchecking it (no restart needed).