Sharing a Firewire Drive

Question

I currently have and iMac G5 and iBook G4. I would like to be able to share the firewire HD attached to my G5 so that I can access files on my G4 wirelessly. I have read alot of adive to use "Sharepoints", but the is 0 detail on how to use it one installed.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
James

Answer 1

or make the shares manually
Jsut as a little clarification (ofcourse im sure the links those above provided will explain all this):
1.) If you log in to the remote computer (in this case the onw where the ext. HD is connected) as and Admin you will get a choice of what to mount these choices will be any Volume (Internal HD's, external HDS mounted diskimages, etc..) or that accounts Home folder.
3.) if you login to the remote machine with a standard accountyou will only be able to access things you have specifically shared out - public shares that account's home, shares configured manually or with share points).
You also have your choice of protocols. The two primary being SMB or AFP (you can also mount DAV and FTP but thats another thing).
AFP only works across the local subnet ie your local network while AFP will work across networks (i infact have a automoutn set up at the office to mount a share on my home machine). I prefer afp in general but you can use which ever.
to connect you use cmd+k or finder>Go>Go to Network which provides a dialog asking for the address to the server/sharehost. Ths is essentially an URL fomatted like so:
[protocol]://[username]:[password]@[address]/[sharename]
so for example you could have:
afp://myaccount:mypassword@myserver/theshare
OR
smb://myaccount:mypassword@myserver/theshare
nor supplying your username and password in the url is optionall, if you dont youll get a dialog asking for that so youll need to enter it at some point.
The share name is actually optional as well, youll get list of shares after a successful login to choose from.
IF you ar eon the local subnet and want to access the "server" by name you can do so but you must append .local to it.Or you can jsut use the IP address. it works either way.
hope that helps.
Oh btw share point is really easy to use. the documentation provided with it should get you through if you want to go that route.