How to network a G5 to an Intel imac?

Ethernet will work, whereas firewire probably won't.

For instructions, look here.

I would use a home router, and connect the 2 systems via ethernet.

Then enable System Preferences -> Sharing -> File Sharing so you can mount volumes from one or the other.

If you put the systems side-by-side, you could use Teleport to control both systems from a single keyboard and mouse.

I checked out the teleport app and it seems to fit my needs. But, keep in mind I am clueless to how the the two computers should connect...

You have already connected them via ethernet via your home router. That all you need to do with respect to connecting.

Install Teleport on both Macs.

Enable Teleport on both Macs via System Preferences -> Teleport

On the G5, enable Teleport for sharing.

After you have enabled G5 Teleport sharing, the iMac Teleport system preference should show the G5 as an available device. Drag the G5 icon in the Teleport System Pref to any side of the iMac icon and that will be the edge your mouse moves across from the iMac to the G5.

It is really a nice system.

Since you are at home, you really do not need to worry about all the Teleport security settings.

Ok I somehow managed to use file sharing to mount my g5 hd to the imac. Not sure what I did to make it work but it does. That is ok right?

You enabled G5 System Preferences -> Sharing -> File Sharing. Then on your iMac you most likely clicked on the G5 that appeared in the side bar of a Finder folder window. Or you use Finder -> Go -> Connect to Server, and then "Browsed" to find your G5.

You more or less do the reverse to allow the G5 to mount the iMac volume, although the G5 may need to use the Finder -> Go -> Connect to Server to make the connection.

I have another question though. My G5 is wired to the router the imac is wireless. What security settings should be made just so I can access my hd from the g5 to the imac. I am really clueless on setting security and all the how to articles I have read have probably led me to change one here and one there. Could someone please tell me what permissions should be set and what sharing info should be checked off and so on.

Since your iMac is WiFi, you should be using a form of WPA WiFi encryption between your home WiFi router and your iMac (unless you live in a rural area and it is unlikely someone would park withing 300 feet of your home to borrow WiFi services).

Since you are behind a home router, you do NOT need the Mac OS X firewall, as your home router is acting as your hardware firewall. This makes things very simple for you.

It is always a good idea to have a reasonably difficult to guess password for your user accounts on each Mac, but something you can remember.

And that is about it for secruity.

If we were talking about a laptop that travels to public WiFi access points, hotels, airports, and such, then there would be different rules for secruity you should use.

At this time I only need to have the new imac connect to the internet and be able to access files on the G5.

Since you have home router, both systems may equally access the internet (assuming any authentication your ISP may require (PPPoE maybe) is handled by the home router, which is what I do; if your ISP does not have any separate authentication, then you are all set).

Oh yea, one more thing. You may wish to give each Mac nice name for use when connecting.

System Preferences -> Sharing -> Computer Name at the top of the sharing system pref window.

I would choose something short, without spaces as the name. "myg5" "myimac" only with a little more personality than "my" this or "my" that 🙂

I have no problems with FireWire networking... but Ethernet is simpler because it is more commonly understood for purposes of troubleshooting.. and the gear is MUCH cheaper and more readily available. However, that said, generally FireWIre should be *in theory* a faster network connection if the computers are at arms length from each other so no repeaters are involved, right?

As long as both Macs are physically connected to the same network hub ie the AirPort wifi router, even if one is ethernet and the other is wifi, because they are connected to the same device they are at the same level of the tree if you drew a tree diagram with them as branches off the same router, so they should be able to see each other fine.

Standard Mac networking stuff: Making sure the firewall in security system preferences is not blocking whatever applications your are using (by port or by app name), and after making sure the relevant services you need are enabled in sharing on the appropriate Mac(s), then from Finder use the Go menu and menu item "Connect to Server" to find the service you want on the networked Mac you are looking for... Once the Connect to Server window is up and running, click the "BROWSE" button to get a listing of everything that your Mac can see connected and choose which connection type you want to open.

Once you have successfully used any kind of basic network connection between both systems, I would also recommend use of VNC software to inspect and change settings on either machine if needs be from the other remotely. VNC software makes this possible by putting a working copy of one machine's display on the other and you can access it just like you were working on the other machine. If the two machines are at all separated by some distance (like in another room), that makes running back and forth inconvenient and you will appreciate the time savings that this kind of remote control represents whenever you have issues with one system or need to add or change other things including additional networking connections for specific programs or setting up file sharing, etc..

You can control your 10.4.11 equipped G5 on the 10.5 equipped Intel iMac if you install a good VNC server program on the G5, make sure the firewall is turned off or that the port used for VNC connections is exempted and use the Connect to Server/browse function I mentioned above on the iMac or manually enter the address vnc:~Bonjour name or IP address of G5 as given in the sharing preferences info on that machine.

You can control the other direction too more simply by enabling screen sharing on the 10.5 Intel iMac in system preferences. Note passwords down you setup in sharing and the blahblahblah.local Boujour netwoking address it says you use to reach that system in the top of the sharing settings pane in system preferences on same. Then go to your 10.4.11 G5 and install a good VNC client program on it, giving it the passwords for the Intel iMac you setup and the address you noted ending in .local.