Transfering data from my Powerbook G3 to my PowerMac G5

Is there a way to directly connect my Powerbook G3 (OS X 10.2)laptop to my PowerMac so I can do a direct transfer off of my Powerbook? Or, do I have to download all items to an external drive and then upload to my desktop? Thanks.

OK, I gave it a try per the instructions supplied above. When my G5 was connected, it asked if I wanted to connect to the file server "xxxxxx's computer" It asked to connect as a guest or registered user. I do not have my G5 set up with any passwords at this time, so admin is in my users name with no password. I hit connect, and received a 'connection failed' msg, with an 'unknown user, incorrect password or login is disbled' msg.
When I did it as a guest, it asked me to 'select the volumes to mount', which I did. I received the error 'the folder drop box could not be opened because I do not have sufficient access privileges'. so, what am I missing here? thanks in advance for the help.

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This is a follow-up to my post "Powerbook 145 apparently dead". I elected not to replace the fuse because I feared I wouldn't be able to properly install the new one, or that the problem that caused the fuse to blow will still be there and the new one will blow too.
So, I bought a PowerBook 170 on eBay, swapped its hard disk for my old one, and booted it up. And sure enough, everything was exactly the way I left it 10 years ago. So now I'm wondering how to transfer those documents to my 2009 Mac Pro with OS 10.6 - not an easy tasks, considering these machines have no interfaces in common. Here are what I consider to be my three options (please advise if there are others) -
1) Transfer using floppy disks: I have a working USB floppy drive and a copy of TransMac 9.1 on my Bootcamp Windows 7 installation (since 10.6 no longer reads the HFS disks, only HFS+), so I can transfer via floppy disks. This will be the least convenient but the cheapest since I already have all the equipment (except a stack of floppy disks).
2) Attempt to burn a CD: I don't know of any CD-RW's that would work with the PowerBook 170 running System 7. If anyone does (and it's possible to find it at a reasonable price), please let me know.
3) Attempt to network the PowerBook: I found a third-party SCSI to ethernet adapter that has a driver for System 7 and user testimonials that claim it works with the PowerBook 100 series. That might let the PowerBook onto the internet, but there's no guarantee the Mac Pro will be able to see it on the network. Also, this adapter is exceedingly rare and commands a substantial price on eBay.
So... what should I do?
Thanks in advance!

Update: It was a tedious process, but I have done it. I transferred everything from my PowerBook 145's hard disk using Method 1 as described in my original post. The gist of it is as follows:
1) I saved everything from the old PowerBook to floppy disks, using segmented archives created by ZipIt 1.3.5 where necessary (i.e., a single document or program was larger than a floppy disk's capacity), including third-party system files.
2) I imaged each disk using TransMac 9.1 running in Windows 7 on my Bootcamp installation.
3) I consolidated the contents of all the individual disk images into one image using DiskCopy in Mac OS 9 on Sheepshaver (a very useful, albeit not very stable, PPC emulator, for those of you unfamiliar with it). This was not technically necessary, but it would be convenient when it came time to transfer the data in step 4.
4) I created a disk image in BasiliskII (a 68k Mac emulator with a similar interface to Sheepshaver) and installed System 7.1 on it, which was the OS that my old PowerBook had. Then I transferred the contents of the disk image containing all my transferred files. The end result was a nearly exact (there may have been hidden files that didn't transfer, but otherwise it's complete) clone of my PowerBook's hard disk that's bootable in the emulator, so theoretically it will be forever accessible on my Mac Pro running OS X.
Anyway, hopefully this will help someone who's in the same position. On a side note, I really wanted to go with Method 3, but that SCSI to Ethernet adapter I found on eBay sold for $86 and would probably have necessitated the purchase of an intermediate machine, i.e. an early G3 PowerMac, to complete the process. This wasn't really an option as I'm still a starving grad student.

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*AdwCleaner: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/ http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Removal-Tools/AdwCleaner.shtml
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Transferring data from external hard drive to new replacement Macbook Pro...

Hello,
Apple have arranged to give me a replacement Macbook Pro due to faults with hardware on the one I am currently using. I will be going to pick up the replacement Macbook Pro tomorrow morning.
As a complete novice I just wanted to check that I have backed up the data from my current laptop onto my Iomega external hard drive properly, as I am slightly nervous about losing all my work and not being able to transfer all my files onto my new Macbook Pro tomorrow.
I did a back up using time machine earlier today which took quite a long time and seemed to go successfully. Is this the right thing to have done to save all data from my current laptop onto the external hard drive?
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Well it's like this.
If your problem on the Mac didn't affect the software or the TimeMachine backup, then restoring from that using SetupAssistant (when you first set up a new Mac it will ask you to restore) should go fine.
HOWEVER, if there are software issues on the Mac that also transferred to the TimeMachine drive, that will only transfer them back onto your new computer.
You can't very easily just pick out the things you want to restore from TimeMachine with, it doesn't give that fine detail of control, and if it's really messed up, it might not restore anything at all.
The golden rule of backups is to maintain two separate and easily accessible hardware copies of your data off the machine at all times.
Since you don't know for sure if the TimeMachine restore is going to work as intended, and your only other source is going to disappear, I'd advise a additional backup of your Music, Documents, Pictures and Movie folders etc., to another regular external drive via regular drag and drop copy methods.
The operating system and programs can all be reinstalled from fresh sources on the new machine, provided you have the AppleID and password, license codes for your programs, email passwords and any other necessary information to re-establish the license on the new machine.
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