Sharing Hard Disk

[iMac/IBM User]

I just bought a 1TB Seagate External Hard Disk and would like to do the followings:

1. To share the Disk between my IBM ThinkPad and my son's iMac.
2. To share the Disk on our Wireless LAN that run on a Linksys Router

So far we tried, but best we could only format the disk to be useable by either iMac or ThinkPad but not both, I guess if this is resolved then joining the disk to the LAN should not be an issue. Hope you may have some ideas how this could be done. Thanks

 

[floppybootstomp]

If the disk doesn't have a network port then it cannot become part of a network.

You could try partitioning the disk into two and then formatting each partition into suitable formats but I'm not entirely sure that would work.

Worth a try though.

Your best solution, of course, would be a pair of hard disks, one dedicated to each machine.

 

[KevinMartin]

I think to join in the lan is the only way to share both of your hard disk.