In-home network--is this doable?
Hello all
Right now I have an in-home network which consists of a Macbook, a 2009 iMac and an Airport Extreme, all working fine. But upstairs I have a lonely PPC iMac running 10.3.9 with no airport card, so basically it is "off network." To get files up to the little iMac, I have to copy them on a thumb drive and hoof it upstairs. At which time I generally find that I don't have all the files I need, so it's back downstairs, etc.
This is what I would like to do and please tell me if it is doable. I would purchase an Airport Express Base station and connect to it a hard drive that I already have which has 1 USB and 2 fire Firewire ports. The little iMac would be connected via firewire to the hard drive and the Airport Express would be connected to it via USB. I would then join it to my existing network downstairs. All my sharable files would reside on the hard drive.
Does anybody foresee any problems? I don't see a lot of other solutions because the little iMac is kind of old and can't run Snow Leopard. Thanks all for your expertise.
Linda Tenukas1 wrote:
This is what I would like to do and please tell me if it is doable. I would purchase an Airport Express Base station and connect to it a hard drive that I already have which has 1 USB and 2 fire Firewire ports.
no need. get a pair of powerline adaptors similar to these and connect like this:
extreme LAN > short ethernet > adaptor > outlet / outlet > adaptor > ethernet (long or short as necessary) > iMac.
howzat ?
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Ok.. gottcha
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Factory reset universal
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2. Use all passwords that also comply but can be a bit longer. ie 8-20 characters mixed case and numbers.. no non-alphanumerics.
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4. Check your share name on the computer is not changing.. make sure it also complies with the above.. short no spaces and pure alphanumeric..
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