Macbook and Windows Router

Just wondering was going to purchase that new Mac Book and wanted to know if it can work with a rounter that has other windows computers on it.

I would also like to add that so far, I'm VERY impressed with how the Airport extreme works on the Macbook, waking up from sleep it seems like Macbook re-connects to my wireless router (Netgear) instantly, where as my IBM T43 laptop takes like almost a minute for it to redetect my wireless router and re-associate. My netgear wireless router is also setup not to broadcast SSID and I'm using 128bit wep key.
-Imola

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What is a good wireless printer that will work with a macbook and windows laptops?

Any printer that visibly supports OS X will work fine. My personal recommendation is Brother, followed rather distantly by Canon.
Recently I have grown to favor Brother printers over the others. They are inexpensive, their OS X integration is well-implemented, their consumables are reasonably priced, and their technical support is free forever. If you need to call them and explain that you have a Mac, you will immediately receive competent assistance.
The third and subsequent choices are so far down from those two they're not worth mentioning. I have grown to dislike HP printers, for all the above reasons.
Read user reviews from vendor websites - Amazon is a good place to start, since Amazon lets people write almost anything they want... right, wrong, or completely idiotic.
Read the reviews on the respective manufacturers' websites as well, but consider the likelihood of them deleting negative reviews.
Process all those user reviews employing your own common sense, and draw your own conclusions.
Consider AirPrint compatibility for future needs. Those features add very little to the price over a USB - only or wireless printer. Understand that not all wireless printers are AirPrint compatible - AirPrint must be specifically indicated. Choose among this list: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4356
After OS X compatibility, the next consideration should be the cost of consumables. Laser printers are cheaper than inkjets in that regard.
Here is a list of AirPrint compatible Brother printers and multifunction devices

Connect MacBook And Windows PC

my macbook connect to router with wifi. also my window pc connect to router with lan. in router DHCP enabled and configured. both macbook and pc show in DHCP clint list, but ping request from macbook not get windows pc, also can't connect macbook to pc. please help

So you want to share fikles back and forth between the 2 systems. to do that turn off the windows firewall or add the ip address the mac has to its list of allowed devices.
On the mac you have to enable Windows (SMB) sharing and put the mac in the same workgroup as what the windows system is using. If your windows pc is running windows 7 you need to disable the homgroup system and use the workgroup settings. Also you need a password set on the windows system so it can authenticate login from your LAN.

MacBook and Windows 7

Hey guys! I managed to grab a hold of a second hand MacBook and upgrade it with a 320GB Hard disk, it all went smooth, I had to borrow someones Snow Leopard disk as the MacBook didnt come with one. But i wanted to install Windows 7 to a 30GB partition, so i fired up Bootcamp and formatted the 30GB partiton as NTFS and windows 7 installed perfectly, or so i thought. Sound doesnt work, iSight doesnt work, among other things but my main concern is sound and iSight. Google tells me i need a Snow Leopard install DVD to get the drivers off of. Is this correct? I've downloaded the latest realtek drivers and they dont work either. Device manager reports "Error - The device cannot start (Code 10)" as for iSight, well i cant find a driver anywhere for that.
Windows 7 details:
Microsoft Windows 7 32Bit operating system
Mac Details:
MacBook
Snow Leopard 10.6.4
2Ghz Intel Processor (Core 2 duo i believe)
2GB RAM
Intel GMA 950 - 64MB
-Any help would be appreciated.
-Thanks

Wow i did not know it was illegal to install Snow Leopard from someone elses DVD. I will however go purchase a copy. But i did try installing XP and everytime the setup got to "Setup is starting windows..."
it would crash with
PROCCESS1INITIALIZATIONFAILED.
If this is the first time you've seen this stop error........etc.
Apparently the stop error code (STOP: 0x0000006B...etc) has something to do with roxioGoBack or something. Google wasnt really helpfull.

MacBook and Windows XP

Hello.
I have a stock program software which only works on windows.
I used to have Japanese Toshiba Dynabook and used it until last year.
Now, I want to install it to my macbook, but I realized that I cannot use it even if I have microsoft office for mac.
How can I make my MacBook like Windows environment?
I hope somebody helps me out.
Mahalo.

Hi Mahalo,
right now you can use Apples BootCamp: http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/
or Parallels: http://www.parallels.com/
or VMWare Fusion: http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/
or Codeweavers Crossover: http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/
When Leopard (OSX 10.5) comes out, it will contain an updated version of BootCamp.
Simply said, all you need is a "bona fide full version of Microsoft Windows: XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2, WIndows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate. (No upgrade or multi-disc versions)".
And it should be a 32-bit version of Windows, although chances are that with Leopard 64-bit versions will be also supported.
Regards
Stefan

Macbook and Netgear Router - complications & fix

I am sure lots of you are having similar difficulties with the Macbook and Routers. As soon as I brought my new Macbook home I knocked the whole wireless network out of being usable. The only way to fix it was to close up my Macbook or turn off Airport, then completely rewire the modem and router, resetting them both.
BUT..I found this article:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20070105083013439
and updated my Netgear router.
I have been online wirelessly for a few minutes with my Macbook and it has not messed up the network...yet!
You can access the Netgear MR814v2 through:
http://192.168.0.1
username: admin
password: password
After logging into your router, download the update here:
http://kbserver.netgear.com/release_notes/D102875.asp
Go to your Netgear router smart wizard page (that you already logged onto) click "Router Upgrade" beneath "Maintenance" on the left menu. Click "Choose File" to choose the .img file you downloaded already and upload it.
Here's to hoping this is defenitely the fix I needed, and perhaps it will help some of you.

Hi Don -
I see you've replied to Andrea, and I'm sure you're a very helpful fellow on these forums judging by the number of bars next to your login. Maybe you're chums with Andrea, I don't know. However, since I'm the only other poster in this thread so far, I'm sure you won't mind if I ask to what or whom specifically you're referring. It would seem you've been troubled by a great number of posts by people who haven't posted in this thread, unless of course you mean me. I don't post much in these forums, so perhaps I don't understand your protocols, but it sure feels as if you're preaching to the choir. I certainly didn't post my questions and results in anticipation of a short treatise on lethargy. I - and I'm sure many others like me with less expertise than those like you who respond to our questions - post here as a last resort when things that have worked fail to work after recent changes. In our case, after several years of uninterrupted service from our router, the only hitch we experienced was with the addition of our MBP; my search on the Discussions pointed me to this thread, and thankfully Andrea's link. Are you actually begrudging folks for not diagnosing the hitch as a firmware update before posting a question? Isn't a forum like this the place for folks who "think they know a little" to ask questions of those who think they know a little more? By this inflated measure (didn't it used to be "those who think they know everything?"), no one should post questions, nor certainly expect useful responses, as your post suggests.

Macbook and Netgear Router

I am sure lots of you are having similar difficulties with the Macbook and Routers. As soon as I brought my new Macbook home I knocked the whole wireless network out of being usable. The only way to fix it was to close up my Macbook or turn off Airport, then completely rewire the modem and router, resetting them both.
BUT..I found this article:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20070105083013439
and updated my Netgear router.
I have been online wirelessly for a few minutes with my Macbook and it has not messed up the network...yet!
You can access the Netgear MR814v2 through:
http://192.168.0.1
username: admin
password: password
After logging into your router, download the update here:
http://kbserver.netgear.com/release_notes/D102875.asp
Go to your Netgear router smart wizard page (that you already logged onto) click "Router Upgrade" beneath "Maintenance" on the left menu. Click "Choose File" to choose the .img file you downloaded already and upload it.
Here's to hoping this is defenitely the fix I needed, and perhaps it will help some of you.

Hi Don -
I see you've replied to Andrea, and I'm sure you're a very helpful fellow on these forums judging by the number of bars next to your login. Maybe you're chums with Andrea, I don't know. However, since I'm the only other poster in this thread so far, I'm sure you won't mind if I ask to what or whom specifically you're referring. It would seem you've been troubled by a great number of posts by people who haven't posted in this thread, unless of course you mean me. I don't post much in these forums, so perhaps I don't understand your protocols, but it sure feels as if you're preaching to the choir. I certainly didn't post my questions and results in anticipation of a short treatise on lethargy. I - and I'm sure many others like me with less expertise than those like you who respond to our questions - post here as a last resort when things that have worked fail to work after recent changes. In our case, after several years of uninterrupted service from our router, the only hitch we experienced was with the addition of our MBP; my search on the Discussions pointed me to this thread, and thankfully Andrea's link. Are you actually begrudging folks for not diagnosing the hitch as a firmware update before posting a question? Isn't a forum like this the place for folks who "think they know a little" to ask questions of those who think they know a little more? By this inflated measure (didn't it used to be "those who think they know everything?"), no one should post questions, nor certainly expect useful responses, as your post suggests.

MacBook and Windows

Hey,
I have been browsing the forums, particularly this section for quite a while now. Some information has been useful, but I kind-of need some specific advice now.
I've been a Windows user since May this year when I got the new 2.4GHz MacBook. Mac OS X is fantastic, and the sleekness and features the MacBook provides makes me want to stay up all night just to play with it. But I've probably spent £150+ on games throughout the time I used Windows, and it would be a shame to have all my old favourites lieing around useless. So this is where the situation begins.
I have 160GB on my MacBook (Considering an upgrade to 320GB), and I have allocated 25GB to my Windows XP. No problems with Boot Camp or anything, but I need to run my games on Windows. I have the following games on my Windows XP and they work flawlessly:
- Trackmania United Forever
- Rollercoaster Tycoon 3
- Some old GameHouse games I collected
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- Forsaken
- Call Of Duty
It all sounds well and good, but I want to futureproof myself and install Vista on the MacBook. I used to have Vista Ultimate on a 30GB partition on there, but I recently found myself with no space left. With Vista though, Half Life 2 and Counter Strike: Source were working brilliantly, Age Of Mythology installed, and the Sims 2 was working great. Three of my favourite games no doubt, but Vista takes up so much space I could never have them all on. I was wondering if I should put Vista Home Premium on my MacBook and allocate more space to the Boot Camp partition, that way I might have more space to live with. But then arises the problem of possibly not having enough space on OS X. Ahh!
Any ideas?
Sorry for the long post, but this is a big problem for me (I'm installing games for my holiday on saturday)
Regards,
Alex

Apple has stated that they will not go out of their way to prevent people from running Windows on Macs with Intel processors. That said, there are plenty of design decisions that could have been made that didn't "deliberately" break Windows compatibility, but nevertheless made it very difficult to run Windows. I don't think, for example, that running a dual boot Windows/OS X Mac will ever be as easy as running a dual boot Windows/Linux PC. Installing Windows on a Mac will likely be nontrivial, and Apple certainly won't provide technical support for it.
Short version: no one really knows yet.

Macbook and Linksys router

i am having a strange problem. My macbook had no problem connecting to my linksys wireless g router. now it is. Set to automatic it isnt getting any ip info. I have to set it to manual and enter all the info manually to get it to work. It has a full wireless signal, and a pc on the same network set to automatic works fine. Linksys told me that it was a problem using IPv6 and that i need to change it to IPv4, but i never had to do it before and it worked for months. And when i go to another location, my work, i can connect to that wireless network with the automatic settings. My solution is to have two locations, one for work set to auto and one for home set on man. i am just wondering why its acting this way

I'm also having trouble with my MacBook and my Linksys WRT54G since the last update...
I've found that if I disable the password/encryption security it works fine - but if I have either WPA or WEP enabled, then I can only connect manually, and even then it doesn't get a proper IP address and I can't access the net, even though it shows me as connected with a good signal.
So, for now, I've enabled the MAC address filter so that only my computers can access the wireless network. I'd rather have the WPA or WEP encryption, but it appears something about that update has made that not an option when using a Linksys router.
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Can I sync one iPhone via two computers (MacBook and Windows XP) using iTunes?

My idea is the following:
Sync one iPhone using iTunes installed on two computers:
from Windows XP:
* Outlook 2010 contacts
* Outlook 2010 calendar
* music
from MacBook:
* contacts
OR
from Windows XP:
* Outlook 2010 contacts
* Outlook 2010 calendar
from MacBook:
* contacts
* music
Can I do this?
How would I have to do the set-up?
Additional question: Can I buy apps from iTunes App Store on either of the two computers and having them downloaded automatically on the iPhone?

You can't. You can only sync with one library at a time. I is possible, though not recommended, to sync contacts with one computer and media with another. There is no way to sync contacts with more than one computer.
The best idea would be to sync it with your MacBook and the cloud, and sync Outlook on the PC with the cloud.
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Timing difference between Macbook and WIndows system

I uses a web content management system for my website which was developed in windows, IE and firefox compatible. I notice that if I open up the website in a Macbook Pro, the system time is always 8 hours ahead of Singapore time although the Macbook time settings is set locally. I use firefox, safari, IE5, same result. Which means whatever contents I saved only appears 8 hours later. I use Windows IE or firefox and it works just fine. I don't think is the CMS system problem. I thought it might just be on this Macbook, I got someone to try it out using another Macbook, same result, 8 hours ahead. So it it something about the Macbook settings?
na Windows XP Pro

Hi Keonigt,
There are definitely hardware differences between the MacBook and its bigger sibling the MacBook Pro. You pointed out the first difference of screen sizes. Another perhaps obvious difference is the MacBook Pro's external construction is aluminum as opposed to "plastic". Another difference which may affect performance is that the MacBook Pro utilizes dedicated Video RAM as opposed to the MacBook's sharing it's VRAM with its RAM. This will affect gaming and other graphic intensive applications.
Depending on your needs and objectives - these differences will affect your decision. Of course, both are fantastic machines.
Good luck.

RJ45 connecting macbook and windows laptop

i want to transfer files between the two, can i go from one directly to the other, or do i have to go through a router? and i dont got the windows xp laptop to recognize my macbook as a local area network but i dont know how to get my macbook to recognize the windows computer.

Hi morningbrew,
You may find iFelix's pages at http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/windowsxp.html helpful, especially the page about Filesharing between windows XP and MacOSX 10.4 . Should sort out your problem with getting the Mac to recognise the wondows computer.
iFelix is a "regular' on the Mac boards, so if you still have problems try and track him down.
You don't need a router - just a simple "straight" or "crossover" ethernet cable will do. (It doesn't matter which)
Cheers
Rod

Printing to a C3180 printer wirelessly from a macbook and windows XP PC

OK, this is crazy. I followed the steps ifelix outlined in his links, and much to my satisfaction, everything worked great.......for about a week. Suddenly, I cannot print to the HP anymore from either the macbook wirelessly (I get the 10.0.1.1. is busy message), or the windows XP PC connected to the Airport! If I attach the printer directly to each computer, it functions fine. Any thoughts? I cannot understand why it worked for a while and then suddenly..poof!

Have you tried deleting from Printer Setup and re-Adding?

Macbook and DLink router?

ok so soon i'm going to buy the macbook. I want to have wireless internet but from what i've read it doesn't seem that the airport express has very good range and its quite expensive. So i was wondering if anyone had this router and how well it works with the macbook http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7650455&type=product&productCatego ryId=pcmcat25300050001&id=1134699413343

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