Apple TV to PC. Cross-over cable or Ethernet?

My apple TV will plug directly into the pc with iTunes. Do I need a Cross-over cable or an Ethernet Cable? And What is the difference? Also How would I do this? Thanks in advance!

I got it in April this year... If I have no internet where I am using it, how do I authenticate it to play? Here I have no internet BUT I have no HDTV here... My house has no Internet but it does have an HDTV! Do I need an HDTV to connect it to iTunes to authenticate it? Or can I use my existing Dial-Up connection to do it.. By using my dial-up connection I mean like Connect it to my laptop, and then connecting my laptop to my dial up connection and opening iTunes and do it like that... Would that work?

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Hello learned colleagues,
is it possible to connect an E-mac to a PC using their ethernet ports and a cross-over cable, (no switch)
I need to share files between both computers.
assistance appreciated
DB
eMac Mac OS X (10.3.3)

Yes, you can connect those two machines directly to each other with a crossover Ethernet cable. See these instructions for methods to share files.
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I connect my powerbook to the Mac pro with a cross-over cable.
Personal file sharing is on both computers (both Mac osx 10.4.8)
Question 1:
While most of the time I can make the connection work I still don't understand the logic behind it.
Sometimes I connect and the connection works immediately, on other occasion I have to restart one of the macs or both to make it work.
Is there another solution then restarting?
Please enlight me on the subject.
Question 2:
My Macpro is connected to the internet (to a ethernet-router up the line, I can not pull another cable from the router because all the ports are busy).
My powerbook is connected to the Macpro with the cross-over cable.
Can I access the internet on my powerbook through the cross-over cable. I already tried the Internet Sharing on/off thing but I couldn't make it work.
Thank you all for sharing your knowledge on the subject.
Eugene
Mac pro 2,66 Mac OS X (10.4.7) owerbook g4 12i

Hello Eugene,
Just a quick note to let you know you and others know that you do not need a cross-over Ethernet cable to connect your Mac Pro to another device. The idea of using a cross-over cable is a hold over from bygone days of Ethernet ports and products that either were before the auto-mdix or just did not implement them to save cost. Auto mdix Ethernet ports (which the Mac Pro, and every current Mac computer has) are able to detect the type of cabling/connection, and auto configure the Ethernet port for the proper connection. This mean you can use a regular Ethernet patch cable and not be concerned if it is a straight thru or cross-over style.
As for sharing your internet connection using your Mac Pro, yes, it can be done, and the capability is included with OS X. You can find step by step instructions by accessing the Help menu in the finder and entering "sharing Internet" (without the quotes).
However, I would suggest you just buy an inexpensive Ethernet Switch, to use to expand the number of ports available from your router, and then run a line to your other computer.
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No.
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hi,
according to icnd1, we need to use crossover cable to connect similar devices, lets say router to router or switch to swicth..
does this really matter? I mean, what if i use straight through cable to connect one switch to another?
thanks

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Hmm, I don't know, does it really matter whether the link between devices can be used? (Laugh)
As the other posters have noted, many (newer) devices now support auto MDI/MDIX, but some don't. (Also, on devices that do, auto negotiation might be required to be enabled.) Some older devices sometimes have "special" uplink ports or manual method to switch the port's MDI/MDIX setting, and for those, too, you can use a strait through cable.
If none of the above, however, you'll need a cross over cable for "similar" device types, i.e. those whose tx/rx pins, on the port, are the same.
You need a cross over cable if both sides are MDI or MDIX (i.e. the same), straight cable if both sides are different.

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but it give me error and the cards connceted through it can't be see by on MAX.
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Rollover cable and cross over cable

If I have OOB coonection from a terminal server to a router's console port, do I need to use rollover cable? how about if there's a patch panel betwn terminal server and the router, what cable should I use?

Start simple: if it was a term server and a router (via console), the octal serial cable goes directly into the console port of 2500, 2600 ... anything with an RJ45-style port..
If the console is something like a 6500 or 7500, then you'd need an adapter to a db25 connector.
If you were going directly from a PC (db9f)to an RJ45-style console, it's via a "rolled" cable (reverse the pin order, 1-8, 2-7,3-6, etc) which is most often a powder blue flat cable.
Now, if you need to extend those connections, anything that ultimately results in a "straight through" extension should work, if it's not too long.
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Networking via cross-over ethernet

I have two PCs both running Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. Both are fully updated.
One connects via wireless adapter to a router at the other end of my house (not practical to connect it via ethernet).
The router gets my ISP signal and is my Internet access point.
The other PC is in the same room but has no wireless adapter (I know I could just get one, but that is not what I want to do here).
The two PCs are close enough that I can easily connect them directly to each other with an ethernet cable.
I tried a regular cable but connecting gave me problems so I used a cross-over cable to connect them.
My original intent was to be able file access & sharing of the (let's call it guest PC) and the one with the wireless internet access (let's call it the host).
When I rebooted both I was able to open the explorer and see the host computer from the guest and vice versa on the Network list. I allowed file sharing and everything looked great.
I mapped the user and file locations from the guest that I wanted in the host PC as a network drive on the host.
Since I wasn't regularly using the guest, it went to sleep and I could not re-establish the mapped network drives nor the shared file connection. That was a pain, so I set out on another option.
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because (as I mentioned above) the guest has no wireless adapter and no other way to get Internet except by sharing the host PC's wireless access.
Well, the drives that I had mapped before setting up the Internet sharing suddenly work again fine.
But, AND HERE'S MY CURRENT PROBLEM, I cannot see the guest computer from the host in the explorer (or the other way either).
I tried then to just join the host computer's HomeGroup, but I can't. I can't join a HomeGroup created on the guest either.
I'd like to be able to view and share my files across both the host and guest.
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I also know I can share files using Hamachi (but it does not give remote desktop control so I can't run programs).
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Thanks, I have never solved this. I did check your links. At one point at least I was able to share my wireless connection, but I don't know how I did it and now I have even lost that trying to fix the fact that I could not actually network the two PCs.
Again, both running Windows 7. One has wireless adapter & connects to Internet through router - no problem there.
Second PC has no wireless adapter. I wanted to use cross over ethernet cable to connect it directly to the one that has Internet access. The idea was twofold: first, setting up a peer to peer local network with both PCs on it so I could directly open &
share files from one to the other. I fiddled so much that now I'm getting a message that the PC without the WiFi adapter does not have a valid IP address.
My second (and actually more important goal) was to allow the PC without the WiFi adapter to share the other PC's Internet connection. I did something with the merging option that made it work but I don't know for the life of me what it was. I kept having
trouble with the new network defaulting to Public and I could not change it to Private. That gave me all kinds of problems trying to create and join a HomeGroup. I could create them in each PC but neither could join the other's created HomeGroup.
Now I'm back to square one, or even worse since I can't get either of my goals solved. If it's impossible to network them P2P I'd at least like to share the Internet connection using the cross-over cable as I had it for a few days.

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PC to Router cross over or Straight thro ???

Hi Friends,
I am a newbie, my question can make u laughing. I was trying to install DHCP on an router and i plugged the straight thro cable into the Ethernet interface of the router. Fortunately i got the ip address from the range i assigned.
After a while, i am surprised how can this work. Then i replaced with a cross over and that also works.
Plz tell me how is this possible.
Bye
Rajesh

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I went to a site that redirected me to belay-one.ru/bio/invest.php
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On the bottom of the folder it says vbfolder_1s6ul What is going on. I thought that Apple doesn't have varuses.
I can not locate the windows exe file, that I could delete that annoyong pop up. I reinstalled FireFox, and it looks like its OK browsing with FF
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