[Macworld]

Post your comments for Apple releases Migration and DVD/CD Sharing Update here

[macsterguy]

This update shows up in software update on my G4 12" powerbook, G4 iMac, G5 iMac as well as my daughters and son's iMac, Black Macbook. Not to mention 6 brand new aluminum iMacs at work... I assume it is for all users and not just the new Macbooks??????

[flybynight]

Does this mean that, for example, someone with a new MacBook cannot use Migration Assistant from a machine running 10.3? I'm assuming you would need this update to do it over Ethernet, and I don't see 10.3 support listed. Why, oh why did they drop FireWire from the new MacBook?!?!?!?

[flybynight]

macsterguy - yes, it is for all users. Particularly if you are using it to go TO a new MacBook.

[Schneb]

Lack of Firewire is why I chose the MacBook White over the new aluminum models.

[whitedog]

Even though Migration Assistant was updated, I have yet to find any explanation of how it is to be used with the new MacBooks. I might assume that a direct Ethernet connection would work, as would a wired network connection between the two computers involved (wireless is too slow for any but the most minimal migration), but assumptions are dangerous things - and I don't have a new MacBook to test it with. Since Apple is rarely much help in these situations, I'm hoping Macworld will pick up the slack PDQ.

[moosoman]

In an environment involving a Mac with 10.5.5 Leopard and a Mac with 10.4.11 Tiger, is the sharing one way. What I mean is this: can a Mac running Tiger read discs that are physically on the Mac running Leopard?

[whitedog]

moosoman said:

In an environment involving a Mac with 10.5.5 Leopard and a Mac with 10.4.11 Tiger, is the sharing one way. What I mean is this: can a Mac running Tiger read discs that are physically on the Mac running Leopard?

The short answer is: Yes.

The long answer is: You have to turn on file sharing, naturally, on the Mac with 10.5.5. And drag your 10.5.5 boot volume into the Shared Folders pane in the Sharing preferences. Check permissions for the volume in question to see that you have the kind of access you want.

Then, on the OS X 10.4.11 system, go to Network under the Go menu (in the Finder) and select the Leopard machine you want to access; click the Connect button; enter the necessary user name and password and, if you want them to be filled in automatically hereafter, check the "Remember password in keychain" button and click Connect. All the volumes inside and attached externally to the Leopard Mac should show up in the next window; you can select any one or all of them in the usual manner.

By the way, this did not work for me with versions of Leopard prior to 10.5.3 or thereabouts. But it does work now so something was fixed somewhere along the line. As I have my old dual 1GHz G4 (with OS X 10.4.11) sitting under a table, connected via Ethernet to my Linksys router, I still need to use file sharing from time to time. I've left the G4 at 10.4.11, in fact, so that I can continue to test Tiger/Leopard issues.

Screen Sharing is another matter, of course. For that to work easily I would need Leopard on both machines. But file sharing works fine with the system offset.