Sharing a external drive

[WLKjr]

I have a 120GB external drive that I would like to share, but don't know how to do it.

Anyone here know how?


I am running Panther 10.3

[reprobate]

1. First, lets define some terms.

What do you want to share it with, another computer (pc or mac?), or on a network?

What kind of drive is it? USB or firewire?

As far as I know, you can only mount a drive on one mac at a time, tho I may be wrong being a recent switcher to macs.

Alternatively there are adaptors to allow connecting external hard drives on a network. Here are two that I found. There are others. Just google 'network attached storage adaptor'




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OT. Will someone please explain to me how to substitute a small text label for links.

[WLKjr]

2. I know about the adapters

This external drive I can use either firewire or usb


I want to share the drive with a pc, and I am pretty sure this is an NFS file system or something. I can see my mac HD just fine, just can't write to it, only read. That's all I need to do, is read.

[reprobate]

3. From what my google search turned up you'll have to dismount from the

Mac and then plug into the PC.

Sorry, but that's all I could find on the subject. There may be a way to do it that I'm not aware of, since I'm a recent switcher and still learning.

Maybe someone else has more knowledge than I. Hell, most people have more knowledge than I.

[WLKjr]

4. looks like I will have to break down and ask one of the mac guru's at the

apple store.


Thanks for your help anyway though!

[reprobate]

5. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Post if you find an answer.

I'd like to know the answer too.

[WLKjr]

6. I will do that

I will bookmark this and post again or pm you when I find the answer.