Hi Neil, thanks very much for the very welcome reply. I just tried your suggested method of linking the two iMacs together. (Which is my normal go to method and the one I use first, I use the smb-gateway when this this doesn’t work. I had tried it multiply times the other day without any success.)
Anyway for some unknown reason it worked!! And to make things even better the files that didn’t populate previously are all now showing all of their contents! So problem solved, how I don’t know, but thanks very much for taking the time to reply. If you hadn’t I wouldn’t have tried it again and I would still be sending emails from one iMac to the other to transfer and store documents. Take care. Matt On 20 May 2024, at 8:00 pm, [1]wamug-requ...@lists.wamug.org.au wrote: Send WAMUG mailing list submissions to [2]wa...@lists.wamug.org.au To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wamug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/wamug or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wamug-requ...@lists.wamug.org.au You can reach the person managing the list at wamug-ow...@lists.wamug.org.au When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of WAMUG digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Problem linking one iMac to another iMac (Neil Houghton) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 21:12:18 +0800 From: Neil Houghton <n...@possumology.com> To: WAMUG <wa...@lists.wamug.org.au> Subject: Re: [WAMUG] Problem linking one iMac to another iMac Message-ID: <304319bd-9f26-4129-ad06-79a669d72...@possumology.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi Matt, I don't have much idea about the smb-gateway stuff - not a method I use - and I have rarely used the ?Server Address in the Connect to Server method (and that was a long time ago). So I'm just throwing up a couple of ideas here - and apologies if it is not really relevant to your situation: I also have? different machines, running different OSX versions, on my network and nowadays I always just use the finder to access folders on another machine. First off go to your finder settings and make sure that, in the sidebar tab - under locations, you have the box for your computer (eg your MattiMac2015) ticked. Then, in a finder window, in the sidebar,go to locations and select your computer and typically you would see two items: your HD and network. Select network and you should see any other computers also on your network. Select the computer you want to connect to and take it from there. This may just give you the same result as you are getting with your remote volumes access. With regard to your Desktop & Documents Folders, it strikes me that these are the folders that you can synch with iCloud drive ? ie The Desktop & Documents Folders feature of iCloud Drive lets you decide whether those two folders are stored only on your local Mac's hard drive, or as part of iCloud Drive and available across all of your Apple devices. So maybe check how you have this set-up across both machines ? I would have thought that if you have enabled this feature on both machines you would have no need to go to your other computer since both computers would keep these folders synched with the folders on iCloud drive? Anyway, just some thoughts off the top of my head. HTH Cheers Neil ?On 18/5/2024, 16:56, "WAMUG on behalf of Matt Falvey via WAMUG" <wamug-boun...@lists.wamug.org.au <mailto:wamug-boun...@lists.wamug.org.au> on behalf of wa...@lists.wamug.org.au <mailto:wa...@lists.wamug.org.au>> wrote: Hi, I have just bought an iMac that is running Monterey 12.7.4 and I am having problems with file sharing it to another iMac running High Sierra 10.13.6. I have file sharing on on both in System Preferences. On the Monterey iMac on it says it can be reached and and gives me the smb - gateway address. When I go to Finder>go>Connect to Server on the High Sierra iMac, the Monterey iMac smb - gateway address doesn?t show. (My other ones do.) I click Browse and instead of it finding and displaying the smb - gateway in the Connect to Server window, Server Address, it opens a new Network window with : Remote Volumes> Network>Mac>MattiMac2015 (theMontereyiMac) and and arrow allowing me to open more files, which if I click on it show me the HD name and my User Name But also listed under Remote Volumes is My User name ?Matt?, when I click on that it lists all the main folders, Applications, Calibre Library, Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Incomplete, Library, Media, Movies, Music, Pictures, Sites, To be Worked on. All of them open and show the various sub folders and files EXCEPT: Desktop, Documents & Downloads. Desktop & Documents folders have a small triangle next to their names but nothing opens when clicking on it, the Downloads folder does not have the triangle instead it has an arrow in the bottom right hand corner. If anyone is able to let me know how to find the smb - gateway address via the Server Address in the Connect to Server window that would be great. And if anyone can let me know how to make the Desktop, Documents and Downloads folder show their contents, (Documents being the priority in sharing), just as the other are, well at least that would be a secondary way of connecting the two iMacs if I can?t do it via smb - gateway. Take care. Matt -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <https://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au <mailto:wamug@wamug.org.au>/> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>> -------------- next part -------------- Hi Matt, I don't have much idea about the smb-gateway stuff - not a method I use - and I have rarely used the Server Address in the Connect to Server method (and that was a long time ago). So I'm just throwing up a couple of ideas here - and apologies if it is not really relevant to your situation: I also have different machines, running different OSX versions, on my network and nowadays I always just use the finder to access folders on another machine. * First off go to your finder settings and make sure that, in the sidebar tab - under locations, you have the box for your computer (eg your MattiMac2015) ticked. * Then, in a finder window, in the sidebar,go to locations and select your computer and typically you would see two items: your HD and network. * Select network and you should see any other computers also on your network. Select the computer you want to connect to and take it from there. * This may just give you the same result as you are getting with your remote volumes access. With regard to your Desktop & Documents Folders, it strikes me that these are the folders that you can synch with iCloud drive ? ie * The Desktop & Documents Folders feature of iCloud Drive lets you decide whether those two folders are stored only on your local Mac's hard drive, or as part of iCloud Drive and available across all of your Apple devices. So maybe check how you have this set-up across both machines ? I would have thought that if you have enabled this feature on both machines you would have no need to go to your other computer since both computers would keep these folders synched with the folders on iCloud drive? Anyway, just some thoughts off the top of my head. HTH Cheers Neil ?On 18/5/2024, 16:56, "WAMUG on behalf of Matt Falvey via WAMUG" <wamug-boun...@lists.wamug.org.au <mailto:wamug-boun...@lists.wamug.org.au> on behalf of wa...@lists.wamug.org.au <mailto:wa...@lists.wamug.org.au>> wrote: Hi, I have just bought an iMac that is running Monterey 12.7.4 and I am having problems with file sharing it to another iMac running High Sierra 10.13.6. I have file sharing on on both in System Preferences. On the Monterey iMac on it says it can be reached and and gives me the smb - gateway address. When I go to Finder>go>Connect to Server on the High Sierra iMac, the Monterey iMac smb - gateway address doesn?t show. (My other ones do.) I click Browse and instead of it finding and displaying the smb - gateway in the Connect to Server window, Server Address, it opens a new Network window with : Remote Volumes> Network>Mac>MattiMac2015 (theMontereyiMac) and and arrow allowing me to open more files, which if I click on it show me the HD name and my User Name But also listed under Remote Volumes is My User name ?Matt?, when I click on that it lists all the main folders, Applications, Calibre Library, Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Incomplete, Library, Media, Movies, Music, Pictures, Sites, To be Worked on. All of them open and show the various sub folders and files EXCEPT: Desktop, Documents & Downloads. Desktop & Documents folders have a small triangle next to their names but nothing opens when clicking on it, the Downloads folder does not have the triangle instead it has an arrow in the bottom right hand corner. If anyone is able to let me know how to find the smb - gateway address via the Server Address in the Connect to Server window that would be great. And if anyone can let me know how to make the Desktop, Documents and Downloads folder show their contents, (Documents being the priority in sharing), just as the other are, well at least that would be a secondary way of connecting the two iMacs if I can?t do it via smb - gateway. Take care. 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