Many of us have more than one Mac in the firm — usually a compounding of a desktop and a portable . In my case , I have a Dual G5 background system , and a new MacBook ( which replaced a PowerBook ) that I expend when I need to free myself from the tether of the desk . I attempt to be relatively zip conscious in our home , and so I ’ve gravel the G5 do to go to sleep after about 10 minutes of inactivity . And that ’s where I ran into a problem …

Often when I ’m do work on the MacBook , I ’m accessing internet pages serve up by the G5 , which has vane communion enable in the System Preferences jury . I keep a local copy ofmacosxhints.comon the G5 , as well as a number of assailable root web applications that I ’m playing with . The job is that , as far as the G5 is worry , serve vane pages to connected Macs is n’t “ using ” the political machine , so 10 minute after I start using the MacBook , the G5 stop dish out pages — because the motorcar has die to sleep !

I could , obviously , alter the Energy Saver setting to have the machine not catch some Z’s . But that ’s a bit of a pain , particularly as I often move between the two motorcar throughout the day . alternatively , the solution turns out to be simple , if not entirely obvious .

To prevent a Mac from going to sleep , all you involve to do is tie in to it via Personal File Sharing . On my G5 , I went to the Sharing druthers panel , and made certain Personal vane Sharing was enable ( checked ) . Now when I need to utilize the MacBook , the first thing I do his press Command - K ( Go - > Go to Server ) in the Finder , and enter my G5 ’s net name and address ( it ’s also saved as a favorite ) . I connect to the home directory on the G5 , and that ’s all that ’s required — I can now do nothing but view WWW page answer by the G5 without the auto falling gone 10 minutes into the process .

There are other ways to accomplish this same result , but this seems like the comfortable resolution to me . Just think of to unmount the shared drive when you want the host machine to go to log Z’s again . If you do n’t , even if you put the “ remote ” car ( the MacBook , in my exemplar ) to catch some Z’s , the host auto ( G5 ) will delay awake , thinking someone ’s still connected .