Mac/Apple Tech Guys: Please help (Mac Mini/Imac issues)
I have been tasked with setting up one of our rooms as a Mac lab. We want to do it wireless. We have a MAC mini server which is going in via a cat 5 into our network, which works, it sees our network and the internet. We wanted to use the wireless features on the new IMacs and use the mac mini as a work group server. It was grabbing a .192 address so the units cannot grab the internet. At the end of the day we just want these macs to be able to share files and access the internet.
We thought we could just use the air port feature and they would "see" each other.
I never said I knew anything about MACs/apples outside of basic trouble shooting stuff and my boss understands this, but we need to get this working for the kids (they start school Tuesday).
Keep in mind when you answer, I know virtually NOTHING about macs and apples, etc so speak to me like I am a baby.
PLEASE HELP!
I'm not sure I completely follow your description, but I'll take a stab:
1) you want the Mini to act as a file server for the iMacs
and
2) you want the Mini to provide a internet connection for the iMacs.
Do I have that right? Is there anything else?
Perhaps you could give us more details about what these Macs will actually be doing and running. (For example, will you be running Windows?)
How Many iMacs are there? And did you purchase OSX server software for the Mini, or are you intending to use the builtin sharing features of Leopard?
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