How to access G5 tower hard drives from laptop

Why not post in MacBook Pro or G5 forum?

If you can get on the Internet with both computers at the same time without re-cabling, you have all the Hardware you need for File Sharing.

Turn on File Sharing (best to do it on BOTH computers in case you decide to connect the other way later):

System Preferences > Sharing > \[√] File Sharing ... and wait a minute to be sure its Status changes to ON.

1. Choose Connect to Server from the Go menu.
2. Select the OTHER computer's name from the list, or enter its IP Address.
3. Click Connect.

The login window presented comes from the OTHER computer, but your computer fills in a guess about what login_name you might want to use. It is almost always WRONG. Also, the number of bullets in the Password field is completely arbitrary -- neither Mac has any idea about how long the password is.

If you enter the name and password of a regular user on the other computer, you get access to the Public Folder. If you enter an Admin name and password form the Other computer, you get access to everything that Admin has access to.

I would like to access from a +Mac Book Pro+

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Easy; connect the G5 and the MBP with a Firewire cable (might need an FW400-800 adapter), turn on MBP, connect a keyboard to G5, start up G5 holding down the T key on the G5 keyboard.

I'm not sure about partitions, but the G5 harddrive should show up on the MBP's desktop.