Re: Wireless File Sharing


<Donalmacthomais@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1173543421.561132.133800@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 10 Mar, 14:32, Tim Auton <tim.au...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes, automagically with both AppleTalk and ZeroConf (Bonjour) and with
DNS if you've got that set up on your local network. Oh, and whatever
Windows uses too - WINS? I expect it would use AppleTalk in this
instance. You don't need to type an address, you can browse for the
other machine, which wasn't clear from my post. It tells you how to do
both when you switch Peronsonal File Sharing on.

Thanks Graham and Tim for the advice.

I've tried getting it to work as you suggest, which is basically what
I'd tried to do before (many times) in my usual 'should be able to get
this to work' way.

Unfortunately, with Personal File Sharing turned on on both machines,
neither is visible to the other.

I've tried typing the afp address given, the machine's .local name,
and the name I gave them - all following the instructions given in the
Personal File Sharing preference panel.

This doesn't work, and neither does browsing for the other machine
through the network option in the finder window, or via the 'Go' menu.

In every case the only server visible is the name of the machine I'm
working on.

There must be something blindingly obvious I'm missing. What is it!!!?

Yours frustratedly

Can you ping each machine from the other?

Is there a firewall on either machine? If so it should be configured to
allow file-sharing traffic on the LAN. Since you have a router for your
internet connection you probably don't need firewalls.

--
Graham


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