IP over FireWire

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pnypwrmb76pnypwrmb76
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Hello. I have a Mac and a WinXP machine co-existing peacefully in my network. For various reasons, I am considering purchasing an external firewire harddrive for the Mac.



If I were to do "IP over Firewire", can anybody out there assure me that my WinXP will be able to sense the new drive on the network? I feel very doubtful that any non-Mac would be able to spot a firewire-over-ip drive in the network.





In the big picture, I'd like this drive to be visible to anyone inside my little network. Also, I am aware that there are external harddrives that come with embedded ethernet ports, but I just think they're too expensive.



thanks!

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  • Reply 1 of 3
    maccrazymaccrazy Posts: 2,658member
    on a network you can access external drives so you should be able to connect to it with using your existing setup. If you're unsure you could connect it to the windows machine because the Mac will definitely connect to it.
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    pnypwrmb76pnypwrmb76 Posts: 5member
    The reasons why I intend to connect the drive to the mac is because:



    1) IP over FireWire on the mac seems to be a lot easier to implement

    2) I'm not sure how to set IPoFW on WinXP, AND I'd have to get a firewire card (the machine is a laptop)

    3) The mac is basically my data repository (mp3s, iMovies, photos, documents, email...etc...) whereas the laptop is a remote device with no data to lose.



    But I suppose you have a point. I'm confident the mac could spot the external drive on the windows machine (basically the reverse situation)



    ...



    Upon further reflection, if I attached the external drive through regular firewire (NOT using IPoFW), I think I could access the drive in this fashion:



    ftp://123.456.789.0/Volumes/external_drive/...iTunes...





    thanks!
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    ebbyebby Posts: 3,110member
    As someone who uses IP over firewire frequently, I would like to say a simple ethernet cable is still a preferred method of transferring data. I've had instances where firewire networks simply don't work and other cases where some firewire ports work while neighbor ports don't. It is a bit picky and that is just a Mac to Mac connection. Besides, ethernet networking is cheaper.



    I do use firewire networking to copy large files to my laptop because it beats the heck out of 802.11.



    EDIT: Hard drives will mount as hard drives regardless. It is only the computer to computer connections that is IP over Firewire.
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