Nina R

Q: G5-Mini one-way street: where's the fail?

I just purchased a 2012 Mini to partner with my august Power Mac G5.

 

I've connected them with an Ethernet cable and the G5 behaves as it should—when I ask it to connect to the Mini it prompts for username and password and then shows the Mini's shared files. I've been able to transfer some photos over to the Mini this way.

 

But the Mini cannot browse the G5 no matter what I do. Important to note, it does see the G5. But it can't connect to it. I've tried addressing every possible name for the G5 including its self-assigned IP address in that port. I ask the Mini to browse or connect, the dialog says "connecting," and it hangs. The really annoying part of this is when I click the little "connect as..." button in the corner of the dialog, hoping I will be prompted for username and password as the G5 did in the reverse procedure, nothing happens. Eventually the Mini gives me an error message something like "there was a problem connecting with XXXXX, it may not exist or may not be available at this time," blahblah.

 

Any ideas what the problem might be here?

 

(In case this matters, the Mini is on my cable router's wi-fi network so it remains connected to the Internet while all this is going on. It doesn't need its Ethernet port for that. The G5 has no wi-fi capability so it is wired to the router.)

PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), late 2005 dual-core 2.0 G5

Posted on Nov 9, 2014 12:39 PM

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  • by Nina R,

    Nina R Nina R Nov 11, 2014 8:37 AM in response to Nina R
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    Nov 11, 2014 8:37 AM in response to Nina R

    Aaaaaaand, finally—I realized I should try connecting to the G5 as its owner (which you'll recall I couldn't do when my settings were messed up) to see if that would allow me to use the optical drive. Not only could the Mini read the contents of the data CD I had inserted to test this, but it can also see and use the G5's external (Firewire) drives. Very cool. Hey, I know, "duh," but I've never really had a working LAN before

  • by BDAqua,

    BDAqua BDAqua Nov 11, 2014 10:40 AM in response to Nina R
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    Nov 11, 2014 10:40 AM in response to Nina R

    Great work, great to hear... progress!

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