PC connects to wireless Airlink router, Powerbook doesn't — #1
I have my 12" Powerbook 1.33Ghz with Airport using a D-Link DI-624 with WEP password and have no problems. A friend said he had a more powerful router that I could use. It's an A…
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PC connects to wireless Airlink router, Powerbook doesn't — #2
I'll address WEP later. First, how are you entering the password in your PowerBook? The "WEP password" is really a key, and for the entire rest of the industry defaults to hexade…
SSH tunneling setup — #1
I need to access my home computer from work. I have a dyndns account and my computer is behind an Airport Extreme which is connected to a cable modem. I would like to use VNC and a…
SSH tunneling setup — #2
Mac to Mac ? Or Windows to Mac ?
I use Windows, Putty (open ssh client) and VNC to securly log into my home ibook.. I configured putty to accept all local connections on port 590…
SSH tunneling setup — #3
Mac to Mac.
SSH tunneling setup — #4
Ah, man, this sucks. Once your thread gets sent to the UNIX forum it's all over. It's the black hole of forums.
It's really annoying when the mods do this. Asking a question abou…
SSH tunneling setup — #5
Now that we're here, I guess.
I've been playing around and I have made a little bit of progress. I fired up Apple Remote Desktop preferences and set it to allow VNC connections (I…
SSH tunneling setup — #6
Well, I set mine up and it works fine. Your home machine (the one you want to tunnel to) needs to be set up with a fixed IP address and you need to port forward port 22 from the ro…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #1
Before you jump on me, I did search for this, but didn't find the answer.
I'm thinking about getting a laptop (yea! tax return!!) and in conjunction with that, I am thinking abo…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #2
You don't need to connect the wifi ap directly to the cable modem.
Just connect the APBS to a free port on your d-link, and disable nat/dhcp on the APBS. Should work out of the bo…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #3
Pretty much what mduell said.
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #4
This is good news. Thanks. Anyone disagree with the above? How about the printer functionality?
However, this may be moot if Citrix doesn't work. I just posted a question in …
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #5
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Originally Posted by SimeyTheLimey
This is good news. Thanks. Anyone disagree with the above? How about the printer functionality?
Shouldn't be affected. By the wa…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #6
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Originally Posted by f1000
Shouldn't be affected. By the way, you are getting a MacBook, right?
What do you mean by "shouldn't be affected"? Do you mean the setup …
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #7
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Originally Posted by SimeyTheLimey
What do you mean by "shouldn't be affected"? Do you mean the setup that mduell suggests?
Yes, when you have the printer and the AP…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #8
By configuring your base station as mduell says, you turn it into an access point-it no longer does "router functions," but you already have a router and all you want is access poi…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #9
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Originally Posted by f1000
Yes, when you have the printer and the AP Express plugged directly into the router per mduell's suggestion.
As for the Citrix, you might want …
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #10
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Originally Posted by ghporter
. . . and that means that everything will stay on the same subnet, allowing whatever printing functionality you have set up already to cont…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #11
Yes. By connecting the printer to the AirPort, and turning off DHCP and NAT (uncheck the "share a single IP address" box in the AirPort Admin Utility), you make the AirPort box si…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #12
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Originally Posted by SimeyTheLimey
On the printing, right now my printer is connected directly to my G4 (i.e. not on the network because my printer is only USB capable).
…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #13
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Originally Posted by ghporter
(Well almost any; some wireless routers do not allow you to turn off the router functions so they'd be a pain to set up.)
Can you name …
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #14
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Originally Posted by mduell
Can you name a few? I've never heard of that.
Not right off or I'd have listed them. I've heard reports of D-Link and Netgear routers that…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #15
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Originally Posted by ghporter
at least the Admin Utility makes changing a base station from wireless router to bridge (and thus "access point") mode easy-you just uncheck…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #16
"Just works" is always best. But Apple's wireless products come standard with relatively small, internal antennas. This means that range and connection speed at a distance can su…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #17
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Originally Posted by ghporter
"Just works" is always best. But Apple's wireless products come standard with relatively small, internal antennas. This means that range a…