Can I connect to a friends apple tv

How do I connect my macbook pro to my friends apple tv?

You can't, if your profile is correct.
AirPlay Mirroring requires a second-generation Apple TV or later, OS X 10.8 or better and is supported on the following Mac models: iMac (Mid 2011 or newer), Mac mini (Mid 2011 or newer), MacBook Air (Mid 2011 or newer), and MacBook Pro (Early 2011 or newer).

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I do not have a home wifi setup. How can I connect my iMac to apple TV?

I do not have a home wifi setup. How can I connect my iMac to apple TV?

you need a wifi connection, it says on this manual
http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1607/en_US/apple_tv_3rd_gen_setup.p df

HT4628 some times my internet connection will say it has timed out and I can not connect. but my friends mac never has a problem. How can I fix this?

some times my internet connection will say it has timed out and I can not connect. but my friends mac never has a problem. How can I fix this?

Just confirming, when you have the trouble, the wifi icon is grayed-out or has all bars showing? I believe you are saying that is is grayed-out - not connected to your wireless router.
I have a Mini that started to lose connection to the Internet after the 10.7.3 update but still showed the wireless as connected. If I pinged the wireless router, I would get a quarter of the packets failing to return. The router was a Netgear that supported 802.11N connections. As a test, I set it to 802.11G (54MBps) maximum and the Mini worked fine for a week - no dropouts. And for the other devices that did support 802.11N, while there was a noticeable delay with downloads and pages loading, they still worked.
As another test, I changed the Netgear router to a Billion 802.11N model and the Mini has not had a problems since. (It is still using 802.11g). So it could be your router that is causing trouble for your Mac.
Have a look at some of the More Like This postings in the right column. There has been a number of Mac owners experiencing wifi connection issues and some very good suggestions as to how to resolve their issue.

Mac Book pro can't connect to Internet through Apple airport extreme base station

I had problems connecting to the internet in the past with my macbook pro. One day it suddenly started working again but then I bought a second apple TV I lost connectivity. I have tried changing the IP address manually and while it shows me connected to the wifi I am still with out internet. When I hooked up the new Apple TV that I bought it booted my computer from it's ip address. The apple TV though wouldn't work and now nor would my computer. I ended up setting the Apple TV's ip address manually and now it works fine. My computer on the other hand does not no matter if I set it manually or not. Even if I plug in the ethernet cable from the base station it doesn't work. It show that it has a self assigned IP address. After I set it manually it shows that I am connected both via wifi and the ethernet cable but I can't connect to the internet. If I plug the modem directly into the computer bypassing the base station I get internet and it is using the IP address that worked originally.
It has something to do with the connection from the base station to my computer but this is odd considering every other device I have: iPhone 4, apple tv, apple tv, apple mini with retina display all work perfectly via wifi (newest apple tv had to be set manually as I stated above but now works fine). When I check the ip of the base station itself it seems to be different from the ip of the computer when the computer was connected directly to the router. I don't understand why my computer now can't connect to the internet via the base station whether it be wifi or by ethernet. Can you please help me trouble shoot this?
I have an AirPort Extreme base station which allows up to 50 users and a 30 meg connection speed.
I have a MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2009), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

It has something to do with the connection from the base station to my computer
I don't think so..
I just posted a reply which totally vanished.. strange strange website now.
Please post some screenshots of your AE setup from the airport utility.. I want to see the summary page, then the network and internet tab.
Please tell us what modem you use.. is it a router??
If you have satellite or 3G wimax etc service they often are limited to 5 IP addresses... the AE takes one and then 4 more devices can join .. no more.
You need to also give us the screenshot of the IP you are getting in a computer that works.
EDIT
Sorry this is half double post.. the previous page refused to display.. now it has returned..

After upgrading to IOS 8 my iPhone 5 wifi is not working well at all .. and can't connect to any of apple services like apple store even can't upgrade my application

After I upgraded to IOS 8 my iPhone is not working well at all .. the most serious issue is the wifi which is too slow and can't connect to apple store and can't update my application .. also tried to search or update for ios 8 but also can't connect . safari also always can't connect to any the server . please check and advise

Hey ahmedfromtanta,
Thanks for the question. After reviewing your post, it sounds like trouble with Wi-Fi. I would recommend that you read this article, it may be able to help you resolve or isolate the issue.
iOS: Troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks and connections
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Have a nice day,
Mario

Can't connect to a friend

For the past two days I have tried to connect to a friend I've Skyped with dozens of times. I get a "busy" message when I try video-calling him, he gets the same thing when he tries calling me.
We are both signed in.
I tried from Windows and directly through Skype, from my Droid phone, from my work and home computers. This is going on for two days now!

Thanks - this is all interesting. I knew about WEP not being secure but this is not my house and not my network. I can't mess with the router because my friends have it set up and are using it.
I should perhaps point out: this is Italy.
(pause for reflection)
The router is the one provided by the telephone company. So is the WEP password.
The WEP password works for them via Airport but not for me.
I'm just wondering why that might be?
Temporarily, my nick ought to be "Tom Not In London"

Can i connect to my friend's DataBase over internet ?

Hi,
both of us are connected to internet.I want to connect to my friend's database through sqlplus utility. I have installed Oracle devsuite 10g.
I have obtained my friends tns and copy it in Network/admin folder's tnsnames.ora files. But when i connect error occurs .The error is TNS could not resolve the connect identifier.
Is remote connection possible over internet ?

sb92075 wrote:
I have installed Oracle devsuite 10g.You need Oracle client software.Did you mean "Oracle Database 11g Release 1 Client (11.1.0.6.0)
for Microsoft Windows (32-bit)" this software ? Since my database is 11g Release 1 ?Should i download this ?

Self assigned ip and can't connect wirelessly on any apple device

Man oh man... this issue has been festering for almost an entire year now and I have not found a solution. Last August (2009) my macbook stopped wirelessly connecting to my ATT 2WIRE dsl modem saying it had a self assigned ip address. I bought the computer in July and could connect with no issues for about a month. Ever since then, I've been connected via ethernet with slow connection. At the same time, the 2 iPhones in our household also could not connect wirelessly. One G5 could connect wirelessly but was extremely weak and often dropped the signal.
I did tons of research and found zillions of other people with this issue and no resolution. I've tried every solution on macrumors, and apple discussions with no results... I've disabled firewall, renewed DHCP, tried DHCP manual (which then changes the status to say I'm connected, but nothing works in my browser), restarted, etc. At work, I can connect to our Linksys router wirelessly with no issues. When my friends come over, their macbooks and iPhones don't work either!
Originally I thought the issue was my modem so I ordered another one. Same issue. Just this week I was at my wits end and cancelled my service with ATT and switched to Clear. I acquired a Linksys router to connect to the Clear Modem and I'm STILL having this issue. The difference is now that my iPhone can connect wirelessly but my macbook still cannot. The router is a Linksys WRT51ab. My macbook pro is on version 10.5.8. I can only assume that some kind of update to airport is causing the problem. As of now, my IPv4 address is: 169.254.111.225
Please someone help me! I promise some kind of reward if you can help me fix this.

Based on the model number, your Linksys router is OLD.
I'd actually suspect that your router has been the problem.
You can download the full user manual here --> http://homedownloads.cisco.com/downloads/wrt51ab_ug.pdf
I don't know if you ever secured your wireless router or renamed it from the factory defaults.
If it your Linksys wireless router is not password secured, it's possible that someone else changed settings about the time things stopped connecting.
Regardless, you can completely reset the Linksys to the factory defaults by holding down the Reset button on the Linksys for more than 10 seconds.
Do that first.
Then see if things 'magically' start connecting again. I'm guessing the phones will connect, but the Mac still won't, because of the IP address in the current configuration.
If not, here's how to configure your Mac network settings.
On your Mac, in System Preferences, Internet and Network, Network,
Click on Location, Edit Location
Click the + sign to create a new location called '_test'
(The underscore before the name will put it at the top of your Locations list where it's easy to find)
Select Ethernet (wired)
First, we'll let DHCP try to set the address.
Click Apply.
Move the selection back to Ethernet, and watch the Status.
If it shows Connected and IP address appears after a few moments, at least the WIRED configuration is working.
Now IF the Wired configuration works, lets move on to the wireless configuration...
(If the Wired configuration is still not working, post back and we'll work through it.)
Still in System Preferences, Internet and Network, Network, with the _test location you just created...
Select the AirPort interface in the left column.
Turn AirPort On.
If no Network Name appears, click on the up/down button and select Join Other Network and select your Linksys router name.
Click 'Apply'.
Leave DHCP settings alone and watch the Status to see if it connects.
Let me know what happens!

Can't connect to itunes with apple tv since itunes update 11.0.3

apple tv worked fine untill todays update of itunes!
tried everything incl. reinstall, home sharing deactivating etc.
internet and wifi is working. even music works but no acess to computer.
apple tv always says that i have to activate home sharing in itunes, which i did already.

Same issue here. In fact, my connection to the iTunes Store was even disabled for a while. That's back, but now iTunes can't see my Apple TV and it doesn't show up under Preferences > Devices. File > Devices is also greyed out.
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Can't connect to a friend's router

I am staying with friends. I can see their network via airport and when it asks me for the WEP password I enter it, but it refuses to recognise the WEP.
I've tried the trick of putting in a $ sign before the WEP password but that doesn't help.
Any suggestions?
Currently I'm connected via Ethernet but the connection is very slow. It took something like 10 minutes for me to get here and post this message.
Meanwhile, as I type this, in the Network System Prefs window I'm seeing the message "Authentication server is not responding" but somehow I'm just about managing to connect via Ethernet.
Any suggestions would be welcome as to how I can get this WEP password accepted. It is definitely correct.

Thanks - this is all interesting. I knew about WEP not being secure but this is not my house and not my network. I can't mess with the router because my friends have it set up and are using it.
I should perhaps point out: this is Italy.
(pause for reflection)
The router is the one provided by the telephone company. So is the WEP password.
The WEP password works for them via Airport but not for me.
I'm just wondering why that might be?
Temporarily, my nick ought to be "Tom Not In London"

Can't connect to server via apple+k

If i try and connect to another machine via GO>CONNECT TO SERVER I get the beachball of death which spins forever until I force quit finder.
I have created a new user account and if i try the same it works perfectly, which suggests to me a file/preference has corrupted.
Does anybody have an idea what files may be corrupt and need deleting?
Thank you

Managed to sort it myself.
Moved the Library folder from 'Username'>Library onto my desktop and logged out of the dodgy account.
Logged in again and a new Library folder was created. Apple+k then worked.
I then copied the old files into the new folder in batches of 20, logged out then in again and kept trying Apple+k.
I put all the files back,logging out then in every time, ensuring the file I was copying overwrote the new file.
After I had copied all the files I rebooted and upon restart Apple+k worked.
I have no idea what the actual corrupt file was, but at least other people with the same problem now have a method of getting back to normal.

I can install apps downloaded from my friends apple ID but i can't install apps downloaded from internet. WHY?

in both cases the apple ID is different but i can install apps from my friends apple ID but not with apps downloaded from internet

What do you mean by apps downloaded from the internet?
iPhone apps can be downloaded and installed from the iTunes App Store only.

Software Update can't download; Safari can't connect to apple (tough!)

hello -
I posted this topic in Safari but it may really be more of a networking question. I have two problems which are specific to one user account on my Tiger machine.
1) Safari can't connect to anything from Apple.com
2) Software Update can download lists of updates, but the downloads of the updates themselves never begin (hangs at 0 B of 31 MB, etc.)
Firefox is fine on apple sites from this account, and neither problem is present when I login to a different account.
Here are some things I've tried with no luck:
-trash com.apple.softwareupdate.plist
-move all plists out of Preferences and restart Safari
-move Safari folder out of ~/Library and restart Safari
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the working user account and restart Safari
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I ran a port scan in Network Utility and this is what I get:
Port Scan has started ...
Port Scanning host: 192.168.100.54
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Open TCP Port: 22 ssh
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Is it weird that port 80 does not appear? Still, I get the same result from the working user's account so it's hard to imagine this is the case. I don't have the OS X firewall on.
I am really stumped by this problem and would love some help!
thanks,
Gene

curious and curiouser! Your suggestion to Reset Safari was a great one - thanks! Resetting Safari allows access to the apple websites again. There's no new software to download from SWUpdate right now, so I can't test that, but I will test as soon as I can.
here's the weird thing though. Attempting to login to these discussion forums using Safari brings the problem back again! I type in my login info and it hangs forever while trying to load discussions.apple.com/login.jspa. Once this has happened, then I'm once again unable to load anything under apple.com in Safari, until I Reset. I thought maybe this was a Java problem so I reinstalled the latest Java, but this doesn't help. Still no problem here in Firefox.
any thoughts!
Gene

Can I connect Apple TV 1st generation to Ipad 2 wirelessly on my home network

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I believe the first generation Apple TV cannot use AirPlay, which would be a problem.
See:
Using AirPlay
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