The offered prescriptions sounded pretty much like what I have described above, but there were a few nuggets of wisdom:ġ/ It may help to turn Personal File Sharing off and then back on again in the Mac OS X Sharing preference panelĢ/ Be very sure that you do not have AppleTalk active on two or more Ethernet ports on the same OS X machine.
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I Google’d and Google’d trying to find a probable cause for the disappearance, and I tinkered and tinkered hoping to experimentally stumble upon that same cause, but I could never get it to show up again.įinally, I stumbled upon not the cause, but rather an old article in the Apple support archive ( ) addressing this very topic (“Your Computer’s Name Does Not Appear on the Network”). I was thus able to limp along for a time while I figured this out.īut what had gone wrong? It was so graceful and elegant to simply select the PowerMac G5’s name in the Chooser window, and I missed it. Inconvenient and unobvious, but workable. Its shared disks showed up and I was able to mount the one I wanted to reference and carry on. I did just that – I got the address of my PowerMac G5 from its Sharing preference panel, entered it, and all was well. In that same Chooser AppleTalk window, you can click the “Server IP Address” button and directly enter the IP address of the intended destination machine. Now happily, Apple thoughtfully provides a work around for situations like this. What had broken now? Honestly, these older Macs are so cantankerous! This worked for a very long time, and then suddenly, one day, it didn’t anymore! With no apparent changes made by myself to any of the above, one day the PowerMac G5 just no longer showed up in the Chooser! It had just disappeared! What had gone wrong? Like all good users, I swore up and down that I had not changed anything. The PowerMac G5 (or whatever Mac OS X 10.4.x machine you are using) should show up in the right pane of the Chooser window, under the name you entered in the Sharing preferences panel of the PowerMac G5 (or whatever Mac OS X 10.4.x machine you are using).
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That’s it! Now, returning to the Quadra 840AV (or whatever Mac OS 8.x or 9.x machine you are using), start Chooser and select “AppleTalk” in the left pane.
Select “AppleTalk” from the button bar along the top of the main portion of the Ethernet details pane that is presented and check the “Make AppleTalk Active” check box. Determine which Ethernet port you are using (there are two on particular model I am using) and select it in the “Show” selection. On the PowerMac G5 Dual 2.3 GHz (or any Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger machine)ġ/ Go to the Sharing preference panel and ensure that you have a name filled into the “Computer Name” field, and that “Personal File Sharing” is set to “On”.Ģ/ Go the Network preference panel.
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On the Quadra 840AV (or any Mac OS 8.x or 9.x machine)ġ/ Configure TCP/IP correctly via the TCP/IP control panel and verify that you have full internet connectivityĢ/ Go to the AppleTalk control panel and be sure that “Connect via” selection is set to “Internet”. In case you haven’t done this before, to make this work the following needs to be done to each machine: This involved a little bit of setup on both ends, but has worked very well for quite a long time. The Case of the Disappearing PowerMac G5įor some time now, I have been sharing files between my Quadra 840AV, running Mac OS 8.1, and my PowerMac G5 Dual 2.3 GHz, running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
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