Sharing an external hard drive

I have 3 systems (2 minis running Tiger and 1 G4 running OS9) networked through a D-Link DI-524 router. I also have a LaCie 160GB external hdd on one of the minis. I would like to know how to configure things so that the external LaCie drive is visible and easily accessible to all 3 systems.

Start by setting up file sharing on all three Macs.
On the Mac running MacOS 9.x you must also:
1. Open the File Sharing control panel.
2. Click the checkbox to enable the "Enable File Sharing clients to connect over TCP/IP" option. (Your computer must already be set up on a TCP/IP network.)
3. Close the File Sharing control panel.
... as well has having Appletalk enabled (in the Appletalk control panel).
Then use the free application SharePoints to make the external hard drive accessible to all networked Macs.

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We bought a 300GB Lacie external hard drive, and pointed each Mac's iTunes to the same folder on that drive. Then the computer asked to "consolidate," which means copying all the music on each to that shared folder--which is great so far. But then in iTunes one Mac can only see the music it copied to that folder, and the other can only see the music it copied over. If I go into Finder, I can see both of our music, but in iTunes, no. There is some purchased iTunes music, but mostly just our own CDs.
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Each computer (actually, each user account on each computer) has its own iTunes Library, which is a directory file. Moving computer A's music files to the new hard drive resulted in the Library file being updated to show the new location of the music that already was part of the Library. Moving computer B's files to that same location didn't affect computer A's iTunes Library file.
On each computer, you'll need to use the Add to Library command (or do the equivalent by dragging music folders from the Finder onto the Library icon in the Source panel of iTunes) to get all the music into your Libraries.
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I have my time capsule set and running now for a few weeks. I have an external hard drive which want to connect it to TC and share it over the network.
I connected the HD to the TC and restarted the machine. But I'm not sure why is not showing the HD.
Did I need to reset the TC to make the port sharing work? I just didn't want to reset it before asking the question.
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Ah, so you are connecting your keyboard to the Time Capsule via usb? I don't believe that will work. If your keyboard has an ethernet port and supports sharing of the hard drive you could try running an ethernet cord from your keyboard to your Time Capsule and then seeing if your other computer that are connected to the Time Capsule can see the drive.
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Apple TV home sharing through external hard drive.

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If you intend to use home sharing, that is done through iTunes. The content can reside on your external, but it would need to be pointed to iTunes. The computer would need to be on for it to be available for Apple TV.
The scenario you are looking at would involve looking for a 3rd party app and using an IOS device to transmit the content to Apple TV, and it may not be reliable.

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If I'm using an external hard drive to store my iTunes library, why does my MacBook need to be turned on in order to Home Share via AppleTV?

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Sharing an external hard drive with a PC

Hello. I am still using a 2005 PPC iMac running Tiger. My photos are stored in Aperture and Lightroom 2, however they are all stored on my computer's hard drive. I want to remove them from my computer and store them on an external hard drive instead.
My flat mate has a Windows based PC laptop and also has stuff he wants to store on an external hard drive. We were thinking about going halves and getting a Western Digital 2TB hard drive and sharing it.
I understand that the hard drives can be shared for both formats using FAT32, although I am aware there are file size limits and data corruption is very possible, so I will be avoiding that. I have read that it can also be done using NTFS for a PC and downloading NTFS-3G for use with the Mac so both formats can read and write to the hard drive.
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Fancy an Apple? wrote:
Hello. I am still using a 2005 PPC iMac running Tiger. My photos are stored in Aperture and Lightroom 2, however they are all stored on my computer's hard drive. I want to remove them from my computer and store them on an external hard drive instead.
My flat mate has a Windows based PC laptop and also has stuff he wants to store on an external hard drive. We were thinking about going halves and getting a Western Digital 2TB hard drive and sharing it.
I understand that the hard drives can be shared for both formats using FAT32, although I am aware there are file size limits and data corruption is very possible, so I will be avoiding that. I have read that it can also be done using NTFS for a PC and downloading NTFS-3G for use with the Mac so both formats can read and write to the hard drive.
My question is this; how will this affect my Lightroom library? Is it even possible to store a Mac based Lightroom Library on an external hard drive that has PC files on it. Or is it safer to not bother sharing a hard drive and getting individual ones?
If you are so concerned about data corruption that a 25 year old well tried file system is too risky, what makes you think that a relatively untried, free 3rd party addition is even going to be as safe?
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Sharing an external hard drive between two macs

Could someone please give me step-by-step instructions on how I can share an external hard drive between my powerpc(running 10.4.11) and my macbook air(running 10.5.6)? I would like to do this with out any external software.

Anthony1900 wrote:
Could someone please give me step-by-step instructions on how I can share an external hard drive between my powerpc(running 10.4.11) and my macbook air(running 10.5.6)? I would like to do this with out any external software.
Simply connect the drive to one of the two computers and there you are!
Use your network and turn on file sharing. It's that simple.

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How do you see TC in itunes as a shared device/ external hard drive?

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Redonkulous99 wrote:
In order to pull movies and music off the TC and back onto the mac?
Are the files you want to access stored on the Time Capsule as regular files or as part of a Time Machine backup? If they are regular files, first mount the TC disk:
1) Open a Finder window. Look for the Time Capsule in the "sidebar". If you don't see it, open the Finder's preferences, select the Sidebar panel, and check "Connected servers".
2) Click on the Time Capsule in the sidebar. You should see the Time Capsule's disk (named "Data" if you didn't change it).
3) Double-click on the "Data" icon in the window. Authenticate with the disk password you declared.
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IS it possible to share external hard drive Mac To Mac, over a PC network,

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I went into "sharing" on her Macbook and turned file sharing on.
I added the mounted drive as a 'shared folder' and made everyone able to read and write.
Under 'options' I checked all of the boxes, including AFT, SMB and FTP (was I suppose to do this?)
Now, when I am on my Macbook Pro I look at the network and I see the PC network server, and her Macbook there (along with another weird network folder called "Mac001ff3cdf6ff", which I'll get to in a minute)
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When I go back and connect to this strange network folder called "Mac001ff3cdf6ff", however, I see again all the folders that I see when I click on my wife's Macbook folder AND the external hard drive..which is great...BUT, why can't I see this when I click on her Macbook folder? I did notice too that the icon is a PC icon for "Mac001ff3cdf6ff" when I click on 'more info, says "PC server".
Does this mean that the only way for me to access the external hard drive is through a PC server and this is the 'long way around' to get into the external drive? And why can't I connect directly from my wife's Macbook icon in the network folder?
Help please! Thank you. I hope this is more clear.

Is there anyone out there who has had success with sharing an external hard drive over a network from Mac to Mac? I just can't figure this out! It's so weird. When I look in the network places I see the icon for my wife's computer, and the PC ones of my brother in law's drives connected to the network. And ONE of those PC icons (you know, the one with the blue screen of death on them?) is labeled with "mac934ffsg" or something similar. I've been experimenting and when I add the hard drive in "shared", or if I add another folder in 'shared' on her computer it is THIS icon in the network that is updated.
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External Hard Drive "You don't have permission" intermittent issue

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