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Some of them require a driver to be installed on the Mac, which I think introduces another option for something to go wrong and which could break with an OSx update. I've looked at the different ones, but it seems they don't all support the AFP very well. Reviews tell me it's not all that the time capsule is not suitable just for file store. Plus the iMac and Mini already have external firewire drives that handle Time Machine just fine. Time Capsule - this is really for use via Time Machine and I already have a wireless network that runs fine. If it had not been for the Quicken data file, Dropbox would have been perfect. I tried using Dropbox, and that would have been a perfect solution except for the fact that one important file that I wanted to share is a Quicken data file, which can NOT be handled by Dropbox (the file gets corrupted, and the Dropbox forum states it's a known issue but no fix is planned). I've spent hours checking configurations on sharing and can't find anything wrong Strangely enough the iMac can connect to all the other systems with no problems and the other systems can all connect to each other as well. My problem is that I can't connect to the iMac for file sharing it keeps coming up with "Connection failed" and I've done more troubleshooting for it than I want to so I'm looking for an alternate way to be able to access files that I store on the iMac. There's also an iBook G4 running Leopard which I still use now and then. I have a 24" iMac, a 13" MBP, and a Mini, all running Snow Leopard. Mac Mini :: Can't Connect To The IMac For File Sharing Oct 12, 2010