Airport networking with Windows XP

I have a Intel iMac 17" Duo Core and I can't for the life of me get it to connect to my windows computer that has a pci d-link wireless card.
And vs vrsa ( you know what I mean)
Please help. I want to be able to send files, play games and shar the internet from my mac to my windows computer. I have my DSL connection via my iMac ethernet.
HELP<HELP<HELP

Sorry I don't have any experience with Windows, or non-Apple anything, but couldn't you find an answer somewhere here? http://www.apple.com/support/tiger/network/ Best of luck:)
OK, I see you got if fixed:)

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Networking with Windows PC

I have 2 computers. One is a Powerbook G4 12-inch. The other is Dell Dimension E310. They both connect to the Internet perfectly via an Apple Airport Extreme Base Station. I would like to transfer files (picture, movies, etc.) from the Powerbook to the Dell. I created a Network Place on my Dell. In the Network tab in the Finder in the Powerbook, the Folder of my workgroup is there. I try place a file inside that folder but comes up with "Sorry, the operation could not be completed because an unexpected error occured. (Error code -61)" All I want to do is set-up a netywork so the 2 computers can recognize each other and send files to each other once in a while via the Airport Extreme Base Station. If this cannot be done, please tell me. If it can be done, what are the easiest steps to get this done so the 2 computers can recognize each other and send files to one another?

If you are asking about such a question it is best answered by posting a new question.
You can cut and paste the question you posted here and ask about networking with Windows servers. You will get more and better responses from more mac experts.
You should have no problems. The key word being "should". The reality is that frequent changes to X security and the Windows environment may break the ease with which you can network. Don't worry about reading and writing to a disk that has been formatted diffently. Mac and windows machines are frequently interfacing with drives formatted in foreign formats with no problem. The network should handle the differences.
What you should be concerned with is the IT support that you may or may not have with an orphan laptop. Many in IT don't want to deal with macs (or linux, or anything else). Without their support you may not be happy. It won't be the mac's fault but that does not matter.
The good thing about the new mac laptops is that you can also install Windows and if any problems persist you can switch to Windows while resolving any mac issues. It really is pretty tough to claim that macs can't exist in pc land any more. Before you may have had to resort to virtual pc (with it's issues) but now you can just reboot into Windows. You should not have to but it is there if needed. I see no reason to not get the mac.

I am sharing my macbook pro over a network with windows 7, however through windows 7 I can access my whole computer instead of just the shared files!

I am sharing my macbook pro over a network with windows 7, however through windows 7 I can access my whole computer instead of just the shared files!

Hi Sig,
The issue is that i only want the shared folders to be accessed through windows 7.
Whats the point otherwise to have shared folders?
thanks..

HP LaserJet M1120 MFP will not print on wireless network with Windows 8.1 operating system

The printer worked on the wireless network with Windows 8.
I have been advised that it does not work with windows 8.1 because a driver is required. However this is not available to download.
It is ridiculous that by having the latest operating system I am unable to use the HP printer on the wireless network
When will HP have the driver to download?

Check the support site here.
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Printer-All-in-One-Software-Drivers/HP-LaserJet-M1120-MFP-will-not-prin...
Make sure you have the firmware update also.
Say thanks by clicking the Kudos Thumbs Up to the right in the post.
If my post resolved your problem, please mark it as an Accepted Solution ...
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I'm suddenly unable to join my Airport network with my PowerBook G4. I am able to access my network with all of my other devices. How can I once again establish access using my PowerBook G4.

I'm suddenly unable to join my Airport network with my PowerBook G4. I am able to access my network with all of my other devices. How can I once again establish access using my PowerBook G4?

Bruce777 solved this for me, thank you Bruce! My printer now works perfectly on my new wifi network!
Bruce's instructions, for anyone else having the same issue:
- delete any previously set up printers
- scrub old hp software and update software to get the hp 2.8 drivers
- remove the usb cable from the printer if you have one connected
- reset the printer network to hpsetup (hold down the power button and press network button 2x and then cancel 3x, release power button.)
- print out the wireless network test report (hold down the network button and press the update button 2x). verify the network name / ssid is hsetup
- got to sys prefs > network and change the mac wireless network to hpsetup
- go to the sys pref > print scan
- add the HP 8000 printer
- click on the options and supplies button and click on the Show Printer Webpage
- click on the networking tab > wireless in the left pane > start network wizard and change the network from hpsetup to your network
- finish (this page may freeze up. close the browser)
- go back to the sys prefs and change the wireless network back to your networt
- go to the printer and print out the wireless network test report (press network button and update button 2x). Check that the SSID is your network
- go to sys prefs > print scan > select your printer > options & supplies > show printer webpage > network info (check ssid and compare to wireless network test report)
- try printing something to your printer. It might take a little time the first print.

How do I connect to a Wi-Fi network with Windows 10?

QuestionHow do I connect to a Wi-Fi / wireless network with Windows 10?
AnswerNote: This article describes connecting to wireless networks in Windows 10. Separate articles exists for doing this in Windows 8 and Windows 7.
To connect to a wireless network in Windows 10, follow these simple steps:
Select the wireless icon in the bottom-right near the clock. If you don't see it, you might need to press the up arrow to see more icons.
A panel will open on the right that lists detected wireless networks.
At the bottom of the panel, you'll see buttons for Wi-Fi and Airplane mode.
Ensure Wi-Fi is enabled and Airplane mode is disabled.
Select your wireless network from the list.
You can check the box next to Connect automatically if you prefer.
Now select Connect.
If it requires a password, it'll prompt you. In that case, enter your credentials and follow the prompts.
You can also watch this video showing how to connect to Wi-Fi with Windows 10:

What are you trying to do the password on .. I have never noticed that it is limited to specific lengths unless you use WEP.. surely you don't use wep.

Airport extreme with windows service pack 2

I have just recently bought a macbook pro laptop, & have been corresponding with a forum member about a wireless setup.
I want to have a wireless set up with a PC desktop with windows xp home service pack 2 that is stationed in the kitchen. This was recommended to me in this forum. Right now the PC has an Ethernet black box, with at&t DSL service. It has one yellow Ethernet cable coming from the black box to the PC & one grey DSL cord coming out of the black box & connects to a phone in the kitchen. I bought the laptop for my online classes so steady reliable internet service is crucial. Upon reading the specs of the airport extreme however got me a little concerned about which service pack I can use.
Here is my question & comment from another member on this forum;
I just noticed a PC has to have windows service pack 3, I have service pack 2, will it work with service pack 2? I am reluctant to update to service pack 3, my story behind my reluctance; the last time I did it, my PC completely crashed, the hard drive died. It had to be replaced, & ever since I get a little yellow alert to update to service pack 3, but I have not done it out of fear of another meltdown. Right now it is the only computer in our house, & I need it for my online classes. Last summer when I tried the service pack 3 update, & subsequent PC meltdown, I had to go to a public computer lab to finish off an online class, so I do not want to go through this again.
And this is what they said;
+That will give you wired internet access at the PC. Of course, the MacBook Pro will be wireless. I am not sure about the technical specifications required for the Airport. My initial reaction is that you should be fine to use the Airport as just a router with the PC with Service Pack 2. I think SP3 is just required for administration of the Airport using the Airport Utility for Windows. But, you could administer the Airport with your MBP. You may want to confirm this in the Airport forum unless somebody else here knows for sure! Sorry!+

Which would be more powerful & reliable? the newest airport extreme or the aiport with the 500GB time capsule?
Again, it will depend on what your networking requirements are. If we are talking about support for Time Machine backups, then only the Time Capsule (of the two options you listed) would work. Apple doesn't currently support these backups to drives attached to the AirPort Extreme Base Station.
Would I be better off with something that is just for wireless internet? or a combo unit time capsule & airport?
If you don't have any networking gear now, then it may make better sense to go with a combination unit.

Can't see wireless network with Windows Vista

I have the Airport Extreme N and two PCs, one with W XP and one with W Vista. Everything works fine with the XP PC. On the Vista PC, I can connect to the network with LAN, but I can’t see the wireless network.
The W Vista PC can identify other networks around the block, so the Broadcom 802.11g network adapter seems to work fine. The wireless runs on channel 13, which is OK for the XP PC. I have installed the latest update for the Airport Extreme.
Any suggestions to what I can do to get the W Vista PC working on wireless?
Best, Kasper

Hi,
I also have the same problem.
My belkin wirelss router is set to channel 13, therefore my macbook cannot see this network when it search's, for the above reasons.
However unlike the situation above I am unable to change from channel 13 as we have discovered in the past that this is the only channel that is not in use by other networks around our area. The rest gave us interferance troubles.
I have a number of windows laptops in the house and there is a setting that you can change so the laptop will search for channel 13. I was wondering if anyone is aware of a setting on the macbook that will make the airport card search for 1 - 13 not just channels 1 - 10 as it is now.
I thought I would add this question to this topic as it is very similar. I hope I was correct in doing so.
Thanks,
Josh
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Advice on set up for a mixed Airport network with guest network.

Hi,
The manuals on the Airport Extreme and Airport Networking are more technical than my knowledge base can follow. I would like advice on how to set up a new network with a mixture of wired and wireless devices and some Windows equipment as well as os x based macs. the following: dsl broadband from Talk Talk to be managed by a Draytek Vigor 120 external modem connected to an Airport Extreme. I want to connect a Nov 2009 iMac (with Mountain Lion installed), Apple TV and xbox by ethernet cable to the 3 ethernet ports on the Extreme, but also to connect wirelessly one Windows 7 laptop, one Macbook Pro (2010) (again running Mountain Lion) and various other wireless devices like an iPad 2, iPhones etcetera, with all devices being part of one network run under one SSID and able to access the internet, and the 3 computers being able to fileshare with each other. On my current Windows created network which I am abandoning for reasons I won't go into here, if more than one of the computers is switched on, I can use any one of the computers to access information in any of the shared folders on the other computers - via Finder in the case of the macs - and I need this going forward. I would also like to create a Guest network as I have a lot of people come to stay who need internet access. To further complicate things, I would also like to add in an Airport Express wirelessly onto the network and link that to a hi-fi to give me the ability to play my iTunes library (situated on my iMac at present) on the hi-fi.
I appreciate that there are similar questions but I have not really found an answer that exactly nails my situation.
Thanks in advance.

It is not really an issue of how many clients can the iMac serve, but more about the volume of traffic you are processing or data the database application needs to serve. We have a Mac hardware that is a good 6 years or more old running OSX Server and supporting 20/30 clients without any problems.
One idea you may like to consider.
Don't run the VPN on the mac, get a router or separate dedicated networking box that provides that purpose. Then it will talk the load of any networking issues and external attacks. It can also provide other networking services for you such a DHCP, firewall, DNS, internet gateway, etc. They cost less next to nothing and are easy to install.
When you need to get something faster, look for a second hand xerve - we use them all the time. They have the advantage of have fast and very reliable discs, also you can raid the disks and hot swap them for backup purposes,
Finally, moving from one machine to another is each with things like carbon copy. But you cannot have the same licence for OSX server running twice, so you will need to install normal OSX on the iMac once you have done the move.
As for can you easily move from a imac to mac pro, sure not to hard to do.

OS9.2- Is it possible to network with windows PCs ?

Relatively new to the world of macs -have a Quicksilver(2002) dualbooting into OS9.2.2 & OSX Tiger. It's connected via a netgear router to the internet which works fine in either system.
When booted into OSX I've worked out how to network with the 2 other Window XP computers that are connected to the router, but I can't figure out how to get the mac to see the other computers when booted in OS9.2. Is it possible or not?
Also although I can access shared documents on the PCs while in OSX I can't get the mac to see the printer that is on the network (connected via 1 of the PCS.)
Is it because it's an OKI C3200 colour laserprinter & it's incompatible with a mac, or have I just not set it up correctly?

OS9 doesn't understand SMB, it can be set up to read PC disks via SCSI, but haven't found a way to Network it yet... unless you can get hold of an old copy of Virtual PC®, or get some Mac Services on the PC itself.
On the Printer Sharing issue...
iFelix...
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3020.html
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/windowsxp.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301397
One more way to overcome stubborn printing to a Windows® printer from a Mac...
http://iharder.sourceforge.net/current/macosx/winmacprinter/

Accessing Airport network from Windows PC

My son is visiting and we cannot get his PC to find and sign on to airport network. Anything special required to do that?

He's tried the password multiple times and cannot get on the network. We have four other laptop PC's in the house this weekend and all others are accessing with no problem. I assume there is something in his settings that is wrong, but I have no PC knowledge as I am a forever Apple user.
The network appears in the list of available networks along with others in the neighborhood, but when he enters the password, it just continually churns away with a green bar scrolling across the screen saying "waiting to connect" (or some similar message).
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There was an error joining the Airport network with WEP or WPA

I use a wireless adsl modem router (Philips). I can only connect via wireless to this router without encryption.
As soon as I use WEP or WPA encryption, I get the error message "There was an error joining the Airport network".
Thank you for any suggestion.

Here are some articles that may help you:
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107921
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304197
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106424
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106250
Do not overlook the possibility that the router itself may be incompatible or may require a firmware update to work properly. You should configure the router to use WPA2, preferably, as this is the most compatible form of encryption with Airports.
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Cant network with windows

I connect to the internet through a wired netgear router. there are a bunch of other computers, all windows, on my network with shared files. when i click network under places i see a "windows network" icon, i click that and see a empty window where all the computers should be.
Not sure if i need samba to get this working since i thought samba is fopr sharing not recieving. either way i have downloaded it and tried to set it up. here is my smb.conf:
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
security = share
dns proxy = no
domain master = no
preferred master = no
[Media]
path = /home/glynn/Media
browsable = yes
read only = yes
guest ok = yes
media is just a folder with a jpg in it so far. thing is, the windows computers cant see the samba server either.
what am i missing? arch doesnt come with some kind of fire wall does it? do i need to open ports on my router? since windows to windows sharing works fine this is kinda wierd, its like i cant connect to anything on the network, but i am on the network since i have internet access
thanks in advance

ping is fine
--- 192.168.1.69 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.149/0.730/1.882/0.814 ms
but when trying the manual mount it just sorta hangs

Configuring an Airport network with two separate nets...

Hi,
I need to configure my Airport Network to have two different local net: the first using 192.168.1.x, and the second using 192.168.2.x with the same gateway address in order that one net could not see the other one but both can use the same internet connection, connected to the main Airport Extreme through the wan port.
Normally to make it I work I configure the subnet of the router in 255.255.0.0.
But I can't find anything about the possibility to set up these LAN parameters (also the LAN IP of an Airport...!!!) on Airport Extreme.
Is there a way I can't find? I hope it can be possible to set these basic parameters like in every 30$ cheapest router...
Or maybe someone could help me to set up my network?
Thanx in advance for any reply,
Gab

I have DSL service from AT&T in San Francisco that includes five static WAN IP addresses behind a single Internet connection with gross speeds of 6Mbps down and 768Kbps up. This kind of service may not be available to you in Italia.
A fairly common use of this service is to provide a "public" Internet connection service for clients and guests while providing another "private" service restricted to employees and associates. Using up to five routers, you can set up to five different subnets that are independent of each other. All subnets share the same Internet pipeline, however.
In my case, I use separate subnets for various testing purposes. For example, I might use a separate subnet to test various functions of a new router without fear of causing problems with my primary network.
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Problems networking with Window Vistat

I have a macbook pro which I want to network with an older windows vista laptop to transfer files. But I cannot connect to the windows machines using the same parameters that previously worked with an older macbook 10.4 machine.
I go to connect to server, use SMB://IP address of windows machine. I have disabled all firewalls, enabled sharing on the windows directory I want to access but still nothing, despite the fact that in 'network-system preferences' the ethernet status is clearly shown as connected.
Any help much appreciated

Hi,
Maybe this will help.
http://www.techspot.com/drivers/driver/file/information/7556/
Regards,
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