Finder forces use of Network Applcations on Airport home network

Our network is having a weird issue. When another computer wants to use an application that computer looks for my computer's applications. Even my own computer seems to do this now. The Applications are listed under the Network instead of under my hard drive.
My Airport setting options only show "by default join a specific network." There are no other drop down options available.
If my laptop is not up and running the other computers can't use their applications without repeatedly canceling out of finding the Network Applications. Any ideas?
Thanks,
trenee
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I have a similar problem... My Boot HD is replicated under Network Icon on one machine, but the APPs are still usable with either the Dock Application folder icon, or openimng the HD on the desktop and going to Applications.
Yours can't do that?

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Power cycling the router. Read the router's user manual or contact their tech support for instructions.
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I have a motorola WPS870G wireless printserver that has an old HP LJ4 attached via parallel. I had a netgear router and all was good. I had it set up so that the router always assigned the same IP address to the print-server, and then I had my G4 set up to print to that IP address - then shared the printer to my MBP along with the other two printers attached to the G4 which is really now just a server in the closet. Anyway, when I switched over, I can't figure out how to find what IP address is being assigned to the printserver now nor how to make sure it's fixed. I've logged onto the printserver and set it to ask for the same IP address every time from the extreme and it does show that it's connected (based on the lights that are lit). I should also share that I first had to change the network SSID and the WEP pw to match the new network. I first tested to make sure it disconnected from the old network, then made sure the lights came back on for the new network. But now I cant figure out what IP address it's connected to. Ultimately, I need to be able to hard code that into the shared printer on the G4 to get everything back in working order. Any suggestions on how to get this printer working?
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First, write down the MAC address of the print server (or ANY other device) you need to configure for a "static" address. In this case, I mean static address not by the sense that we are not using DHCP to assign it, but in the sense that ultimately it doesn't change so your Macs and other computers/devices can always find it on the network.
* If you can't find the MAC address of the print-server or other device in question, then the only other way to go about assigning it a non-changing address will require that you can access that devices internal network setup configurations (some helpful directions on that at the bottom of this text) and set the device's DHCP Client ID to something that you will set the Airport to look for later when it assigns the print-server its connection address. MAC Address is probably easiest to use because you may be able to find the MAC Address of the device on a sticker on its case. If you can't see a MAC Address listed on the device or it has been altered through settings and you can't access the device's setup configuration pages over the network to find its current Mac Address, you may still be able to figure it's MAC Address out by following the monitoring directions immediately below.
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* How to see who's connected....
1. Open Airport Utility.app
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3. Click "Manual Setup" at the bottom.
It will read settings for a moment, then you should see info on the station itself. If not, click the Airport logo on the left side of the top bar of icons to take you back to this top menu page and click the "Summary" sub-tab on the left below it.
NOTE: A lot of people don't realize the fact that this "info" is actually a menu with hidden shortcuts that lead to a lot of advanced useful features that otherwise you might take a while to hunt down navigating icons and tabs above. You have to actually mouse over each line to figure that out.
4. To find out who's connected, mouse-over the entry that says Wireless Clients until it has a right-pointing arrow in a circle appear to alert you that it's now a link. Clicking "Wireless Clients" will be a shortcut that saves you a lot of time and clicking that would equate to clicking the obvious controls above in the order: icon "Advanced", then tab "Logging", then page link "Logs and Statistics" then tab "Wireless Clients".
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5. From here, you can click the "DHCP Clients" tab to see all the devices connected to this basestation by either wireless or wired connections and their relevant MAC addresses, etc. This page unfortunately has no direct quickly like its neighboring tab for Wireless clients, but at least you have a shortcut now to get you to this pages nearest neighboring tab which does save some time.
Note: This info will be helpful to figure out what's going on with your print-server or other routers/devices if you know their MAC addresses. You can find the MAC address on most devices on a sticker somewhere on the bottom or back side of the device if you can't pull up a configuration page on it to tell you. Some devices can have their MAC addresses reprogrammed through their configuration pages. Be aware of that possibility if you can't find the expected MAC address connected in this list. If you can't figure out which MAC address is your print-server, disconnect it from AirPort and see that a device disappears from the list. Then reconnect it and the device that is added to the list again is the MAC address you are looking for. Write this down for the next section. If it doesn't appear in this list, then we have a real problem with the connection like possibly the print-server device's internal networking settings are messed up and need to be reset to defaults. There is some info on how to go about that at the bottom of this text.
Now, on to forcing a DHCP device connected to AirPort routers to always use a particular address:
Once you have an idea what the MAC address is of the device you want to force to use a static address, you can go about it two ways. Either you assign it an address permanently in its own configuration page (if accessible) after turning off its DHCP setting to static, or you can use its DHCP setting to set the address with the Airport Router automatically to the same address every time it reconnects to the network or is turned back on, etc. The steps with Airport need to start the same way in either case.
1. Same as before, if you haven't already, open Airport Utility, select router, click "Manual setup"
2. Click the "Internet" icon at the top. Then click the DHCP subtab.
3. To keep other devices from "Stepping on" your address that you want to assign permanently to the printer or other device, make sure the static address you choose is outside of the range of DHCP addresses setup on this page. If not, other devices could take the address away from time to time and it will cause you headaches.
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1. Under the "DHCP Reservations" section, we want to click the add "+" button to set up your printer or other device for a static (but assigned) address that won't change..
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4. Now here you enter the MAC address (or DHCP Client ID if so directed) of the print-server or other device you want to permanently assign the address you've chosen.
5. Lastly, enter the static IP address you want it to take on each time it is reset and requests and address again from AirPort and click done. This address will always be held available and assigned every time by Airport each time the device with the MAC address you gave it asks for a DHCP address assignment. Thus, while the device thinks its being assigned dynamic addresses, its just using the DHCP process to be assigned the same address every time by AirPort..
6. Save the changes you just made to your Airport configurations for DHCP assignments and reservations and then after Airport restarts, power-cycle your printer or other device you just setup by matching MAC address in Airport Utility and it should be assigned the new address you just specified.
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I hope that helps.

Web-Disk on OSX 10.9 Give me this error: "Finder got an error: Network file permission error."

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What kind of wireless router are you using? more importantly which protocol are you connecting with? Are you and wife connecting using the 2.4Ghz band? or do you have a dual band router that offers the 5GHZ band? Are you both connecting vie 802.11 a/b/g or n?
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I would like to use my iPhone 6's wifi hotspot to provide Internet at home (I do not have home internet) via a Time Capsule which I currently use the TC simply as a home wifi network without Internet to enable things like printing wirelessly and backing up data wirelessly via time machine.
I have a Mac Pro, iPhone 6, iPad, Apple TV and Time Capsule. No home Internet.
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In the past I could use Airport extreme utility to find wireless clienst in manual setup mode. But since airport utility was updated I no longer have that option. In other words I no longer can control who uses my network.
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Thanks Bob! That helped a lot, much appreciated!
Looks like everything is all mine. One thing I noticed is that apu5.6 gives MAC addresses for currently wireless connected devices, right? How can I see what IPs are connected? apu6.0 gives me one IP address, but I would expect at least 3: one for my NAS, one for my TP-Link power adapter, and one for my ADSL Modem.
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Welcome to the discussions forum Blundery.
If you've password protected your wireless network, the only people who can use it are those who know the password, so rest easy. Use WPA or WPA2, since the older WEP encryption is no longer considered secure - hackers can determine your WEP passwords given a little time and effort.
If you're still paranoid, read on:
The easiest way to determine what equipment is piggybacking on your wireless network is to use Airport Utility. Select your Time Capsule and click on the button "Manual Setup". Then, click on the text "Wireless Clients". This will bring up a chart and table with the MAC (Media Access Control) addresses of any wireless equipment on your network. The MAC addresses are in the table under the heading "Client". MAC addresses look like 64:23:A6:B4:2C:E5 or something (I made that one up). MAC addresses are as unique to their equipment as your fingerprints are to you.
The MAC addresses will correspond to your iMac, your netbook PC, and your wireless printer, assuming they're actually running at the time. Write those down someplace so you know what they are.
You can determine your equipment's MAC addresses in various ways. For instance, if you go to your iMac's Apple menu and select "About this Mac", then click "More Info..." then click Network, then click AirPort, scroll down near the bottom and you'll find the MAC address of your iMac. You're on your own finding them for your netbook and printer, but in many cases the MAC addresses are printed on the equipment case, or the box it came in.
If you can't account for a MAC address you're seeing in the "Client" list, you have a piggybacker. But you protected your network with a good password and WPA or WPA2 security, so there won't be any
I am not even 100% sure which part of the whole setup is the modem!!!
The modem is the box found at the other end of the wire connected to your Time Capsule's WAN port. Depending on how you get your Internet service, the box may or may not be in your home.

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I have a brand new MacBook Air, and I am trying to use the Migration Assistant to transfer data from my old MacBook Pro via wireless network.
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Is there a way to connect an old Sunflower iMac (OSX 10.4.11) to a new Time Capsule?
I can’t claim to completely grasp the issue(s) you’re describing, but the underlying problem is presumably your iMac’s obsolete AirPort card. Whatever the case, an obvious (if not particularly helpful) answer to your stated question would be to connect your iMac with an ethernet cable, using powerline adapters as an alternative if you don’t want to have wire running all over the place.
My still fully functional clamshell iBook, with an original AirPort card, connects wirelessly to my 4th Generation TC network by means of a cheap 802.11b/g/n USB Wi-Fi adapter. This might be an option for you too.
Another question--before I used MAC addresses to control who could access network. Now on Time Capsule I don't see anything about this
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