Hello again,

Well I just recently added a G3 iBook (800Mghz) to my home studio!!! She's proven to be a great little machine, perfect for my live performance needs when used outside of my studio...

However, what i would really like to explore is networking my 2 mac's together (sanz Airport) so I can quickly and effortlessly share files back and forth, as well as perhaps even syncronizing my music software (Cubase SX, Reason, Ableton Live and Traktor)using both computers over a simple network! How can I Rewire or use OSC over this network to super charge my studio? Can it be done?

(Btw my Studio's Powermac is a Dual 1 Ghz G4 and both my ibook and Powermac are running Panther)

Also as a side note: I have two Lacie external firewire Harddrives with dual Firewire ports on em, and imagine it would be great to access these from both computeres simultaniously if possible. Is this possible? Can I have both my Mac's attached to and accessing files off these harddrives at the same time?

Thanks to you for your time in reading this inquiry, I'll really appreciate any advice from you folks out there who are savey to networking mac's together for music production purposses. Hopefully this thread will grow and turn out to be a helpfull one for everyone else who is also interested in this topic.



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Can try to answer part of your question.

Networking: yes it's easy either get switch & two ethernet cables and connect your Macs via tcp/ip private network segment.

Or just get a crossed ethernet cable and connect the mac directly -
port to port - on the same segment.

The ip-numbers I'm talking about is:

G4 Tower == 192.168.0.1
Netmask 255.255.0.0 (not that important
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G3 iBook == 192.168.0.2
Netmask 255.255.0.0 (not that important-same as above though)
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I know some folks use a pc for running softsynths and the mac for Digital Performer and sync them up through a network like the above.
You should be able to do something similar with two macs.

About accessing two external fw-drives simultaneously - I dont know

Cheers: Dixiechicken

If you're trying to do what I think you're trying to do, this is a very big no-no. Don't EVER hook up two computers to the same single drive or RAID set because if both computers try to access the drive at the same time they'll more than likely destroy it.

Kind regards.

Note that if the computers are networked thru firewire (IP over firewire, see the network preferences in OSX), a FW drive attached to one of the computers will appear on the other one

Stepped on this the other day while moving my files around from my old G3 to my 2nd hand G5 (still haven't received a DP 2,5 from Apple so I manage myself the way I can

The set up was like this:

G5 => fw400-afp-IP => G3 FWbus1 => Hard drive FWbus2

There is some latency, but to share files…

PAther is wonderful when it comes to networking. I know you'll find a lot of uses for it. also if you get Apples Remote Desktop you can do even more.