Sharing Macs on a network

clucasclucas
Posted:
in macOS edited January 2014
My son has a MacBook Pro and I just received my MacBook. Under "SHARED" on his machine mine is listed (after I allowed file sharing) and he can access all my files. Under "SHARED" on my machine is listed his machine (he also has allowed file sharing) but when I click on it, it just says "connecting" and eventually, after several minutes it says "connection failed". When I click on "Connect As" it starts connecting again. I wanted to see if I was connecting as a guest and not as me. Can someone help?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 6
    clucasclucas Posts: 33member
    No one can help out on this??
  • Reply 2 of 6
    dhagan4755dhagan4755 Posts: 2,152member
    I have experienced this. Are you both using the same .Mac account? I think it's a glitch. Unless you really need to share files frequently, I would turn off Sharing in System Preferences.
  • Reply 3 of 6
    clucasclucas Posts: 33member
    We do not have .Mac accounts.
  • Reply 4 of 6
    clucasclucas Posts: 33member
    No one else has input on this?
  • Reply 5 of 6
    samnuvasamnuva Posts: 225member
    It's probably a router problem. Also, it could be firewalls.
  • Reply 6 of 6
    rich-mysterrich-myster Posts: 771member
    hmm, i'd say, set up an account on your sons computer so you can connect to it.
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