How do I creat a network between two Macs?

Thanks, Tom, but the examples appear to be only for older versions of OS ???
Cheers, Veit

Dear Imac007 and Magus,

The pointers from both of you were very helpful, I read them all (it seems that the major problem was that I had not turned "Apple Talk" on), and now I am able to share the files on my wife's laptop, but, and I'll be "darn", NOT vice versa!??! :-(((

On her laptop (a MacBook with Intel Duo) in Finder>Go>Connect to Server and entering either the afp://-appropriate address or browsing, I will "find" my laptop's name, click on it to Connect, a window opens up with my laptop's name and the "Select the volumes to mount" request, but NO volume name appears there.

Strangely enough, when I create additional (fictitional) Accounts on my laptop (Preferences>Accounts, +), these new volumes DO show up in the above mentioned window and I CAN mount these volumes!??? This puzzles me on end: why can I see additional accounts, but not my main account, i.e. the admin account on my laptop?

Is there perhaps a setting somewhere that "hides" my account? But I have checked practically all the settings and compared them between the two computers, they seem to be identical.

HELP, can you please HELP? I am going nuts. 🙂

Thanks and cheers,
Veit

Please see my answer and further question below. The video was most useful. Thanks indeed.

I did as you suggested; first on my Mac (which could not be seen and mounted on my wife's Mac): since this did not help, I did the same procedure on my wife's Mac (the one that could be recognized on mine and mounted), but also to no avail. The situation remains the same.

Since I can create an additional account on mine, and even allow it to administer the Mac, could I essentially create a new "main account" for myself, copy (or "move") all files over, and finally delete the "old admin account". Would this be a workaround solution? If so, how would I copy/move all those files. Or am I courting disaster with this approach?

Any other preference files to delete and recreate as a simpler solution???

Your advice is MUCH appreciated.

Thanks and cheers,
Veit

Magus,

the "Communicating with other computers wirelessly" states:
QUOTE
To create an AirPort network other users can join:

1. Open Network preferences and choose AirPort from the Show pop-up menu. Click AirPort and make sure the "Allow this computer to create networks" checkbox is selected. UNQUOTE

But my OS X (10.4.11 version) does NOT have a "Allow this computer to create networks"checkbox.

Is this perhaps the rootcause of my problem?

Thanks for advice.
Cheers,
Veit

Thanks, Mort, creating the network (as you described it) works.

The problem remains, as described above, that the main account (i.e. me as the administrator of my laptop) cannot be "seen" on my wife's laptop, hence also not mounted. And all that, even after I did all the procedures suggested by BDAqua above.

I hope that you may have some more suggestions for possible solutions!?!

Cheers and Thanks,
Veit

I did delete (and later restored)the file you mentioned on MY laptop, but it makes no difference.

Which raises the issue: on which Mac should I make these changes: on my wifes (where the admin user of my Mac cannot be seen) or on Mine (where I can see my wifes laptop with all user accounts)?

Again, any help is greatly appreciated.

Cheers and happy Thanksgiving.
Veit