Networking RISC OS and Mac hardware

I’ve acquired a ten year-old G5 Mac running OS X Tiger, and I would like to connect it to the LAN and access shared folders on the G5 using LanMan98 on my RISC OS Pi, as I already do with my Win7 PC. Sharing folders and connecting with the latter was fairly straightforward: the G5, at first glance, seems less so. I’ve gone into System Preferences and (I think) successfully switched on sharing for a particular folder, but I cannot come up with the correct syntax in LM98 to ‘see’ it – unlike Windows, there seems to be no system for designating authorised guests when sharing, and there are other syntactical differences in defining paths to folders. If anyone here has any experience, I would appreciate the fruits of it – TIA.

Tiger is before my time. This does not show any Tiger SMB (Windows) options. In later versions of OS X there is an “Options” button as shown here in “Sharing” preferences that does lead to an SMB setup. It did used then to be possible to LanMan to the Mac from RISC OS until Apple did their own thing Samba-wise and stopped that working a few versions ago. Such is progress.

A G5 will run Leopard (10.5) which provides a lot more flexibility, providing you don’t need the classic environment. (An SSD really provides a nice speed boost, but it is tricky to get a compatible one.)

Thanks for the responses, and the several tips – all welcome, I’m a Mac novice. However the G5, a cast-off from my son’s employer, turns out to have password-protected administrator settings, so unless/until I can find out what the password is there’s not a lot to be done. I’m using Dropbox as a transfer portal for the time being.

Do you have the original OS discs? If so you can use them to reset the password.

I’ve a copy, if you need one.

Do you have the original OS discs? If so you can use them to reset the password.

There’s some quite useful ‘free’ software on the HD (e.g. Photoshop) which I don’t have the original discs for – would using original OS discs (thanks for the offer, Gerald) to reset the password involve losing this? (Presumably upgrading to 10.5 Leopard /would/ involve a complete reinstall and wiping of the HD?)