Network question, easy, probably

Hi,
I have a pretty generic wireless router connected to my DSL. Normally, there's only one machine on the network. We use the wifi to get the laptops on the internet, as needed. Normally, this works just fine. I've never had much need for a network, so I'm not very good at it. I understand some things.
My wife and I like to play bridge with each other, using 3D Bridge Deluxe, by Freeverse. We get the computer to play the other two chairs. This works well, too, except...
We can't figure out how to get the bridge game to work wirelessly. We play in the living room, on our laptops. The wifi router is in the other room. So far, we've only been able to do it by plugging two additional Ethernet cables into the wireless router, and connecting them to our two laptops.
Is there a way to configure the computers, the network, the router... I dunno, whatever... so we can do this on the WiFi?
So far, whenever we try to do this, we get an error message -- Neither laptop can "find" the other laptop on the network.
Thanks in advance,
Tim

I'd think you could just do it Mac to Mac, without the Router involved.
Under the Airport Icon, click create Network, when done, turn on File Sharing on both, (not sure how it communicates, so maybe just turning off the Firewall would work best for this though), then connect to the Network you made, from the other one. Might need to Create another one on the other one... dunno.

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Ok well its more then just one networking question...
I'm working on a game engine (2d) and for the time being it just has two blocks in a 600 by 480 area, both controled by user input on a single comp. I would like to change this so that i can have the blocks be controled by sepeart computers. I know this is possible I just dont know how, any help would be great.
My experience with Java is some what limited i've only been programing for the past 6 months and i've never messed with any network code before.
Any and all help would be great
Thanks
Mike

Boy, that other poster was really helpful, yes? :-P
What you probably want to do is open a "socket" between one computer and the other. (TCP is probably the easiest/best for your application, as opposed to UDP). This is actually pretty simple, and basically consists of:
(this client/server arrangement is the easiest. Peer-to-peer would work too, but is generally more complex.)
1. Computer A decides to become the server and opens a java.net.ServerSocket on port 1234.
2. Computer B opens a java.net.Socket to computer A's port 1234.
3. Computer A accepts the connection and gets a java.net.Socket from the ServerSocket.
4. Now anything computer A writes to the Socket is recieved by computer B, and vice-versa. This is a TCP connection and is stream-based, so it should be familiar if you've done any Java I/O before; in face, you can use java.io.Reader's and Writers, and so on with your Socket.
See http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/networking/sockets/ for a good introduction to sockets.

I bought the iPad 4 of America through the Apple Store of almost a month, and I am now in Egypt, and went to Tradeline company in Egypt, and said in an error made, and they do not do anything, what can I do. (Find Permanent telephone network) QUESTION:

I bought the iPad 4 of America through the Apple Store of almost a month, and I am now in Egypt, and went to Tradeline company in Egypt, and said in an error made, and they do not do anything, what can I do.
(Find Permanent telephone network)
QUESTION: -
1 / What to do
2 / Can you switch the iPad in Egypt (Tradeline)
3 / Can you switch the iPad in the Apple Store is located in the countries of the world, and what these countries.
* I do not speak English

Switching an iTunes Store account to a different country
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/switching-an-itunes-store-acc ount-to-a-different-country/
iOS: How to change the language when it’s set to one you don’t understand
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2371
iTunes: Changing the display language
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2242
iOS: Using international keyboards
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4509
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Hello, I have a networking question.
I have a brand spakin' new 13' MacBook Pro and an older 14' iBook G4 (with a broken airport wireless card).
My internet is set up so that I have the modem connected to a "wired" ethernet hub, then to an airport express. This way I have wireless for my new MacBook Pro, and I can connect my old iBook to the internet with a ethernet cable.
Herein lies my question: I want to access all my files on my ibook from my MacBook Pro. I've tried the file sharing and etc on system preferences, but for some reason it still doesn't work. I believe its because they are on different networks? (one wireless, one wired?)
Any ideas to make my ibook a simple file server.

Try repairing disk permissions.
*"The external HD has two partitions, one is a backup of the ibook, and the other has mixed media. When I access my ibook over the network, Only the backup partition appears, and not the mixed media partition. "* Try repairing permissions but not sure if that's going to work. Can't hurt to try.
Launch Disk Utility. Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.
Also, your profile indicates you are running 10.4.3. If that is the case, you might want to run Software Updates (from the Apple Menu , then click Software Updates.
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Getting my first external hd -- my questions are probably easy

Hi.
The questions I have are probably pretty easy, and have probably been answered here before, but, I wouldn't even know what to put into a search to bring these answers up. . .
I'm getting my first external hd. I'm wondering if once I have some media backed-up to it, if I'll be able to use applications on my home computer disk to open the files (be able to play mp3s on the external drive in iTunes, namely). A sub-question is - would it be possible to just install my os on the external and boot from it (this isn't important, though)? Also, if any of this is possible, is it terrible to run the external all day as I do my iBook?
I guess this hd isn't even really for back-up, but for more space, really. I just don't want to try to install a new internal hd myself, I don't want to have to send my computer in, and this drive will eventually be for back-up, anyway.
One last thing. Should I just browse around the Apple online store for this hd, or could anybody point me toward someplace cheaper (looking to get one that's at least 250 GB)?
Thank you for any help in advance,
Daniel
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You will be able to use your external hard drive to open files from. Example of iTunes:
* If you organise your music folder so that all music is moved to a central location you will have to move your iTunes music folder to your external drive. See:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301748
* If it is set so your music stays at its current location when importing then all you have to do is import files from your External HDD.
If it is a firewire (not USB) hard disk you can install/Boot Mac OS X from it. It is fine to run OS X permanently from your external HDD although it may be a little slower than running off your internal hdd drive.
Note on new intel macs you can boot off USB drives, PPC macs like your iBook need firewire.
Good Luck!

Probably a simple networking question (newbie here)

Hi everyone,
When I installed Solaris 10 inside of a VMWare Workstation vm, I got to the portion of the network configuration where it asked about LDAP or DNS or NFS, and I chose "None" because my setup is not a member of a domain. Now, when I go online, I have no Internet connection.
I have the interface listed in ifconfig -a and it has an IP address of 192.168.0.4 issued by DHCP. Everything is right, except there is no Default Gateway listed, nor does it have my DNS servers listed.
How would I go about setting these in Solaris? I'm not entirely familiar with vi or edit, so a step-by-step will be nice.
I should note, that I'm able to access my Windows Workgroup computer (the physical host) and copy files from it. I just don't have any Internet access. Also, the IP for my physical computer (the Windows share) is my DNS IP, although that shouldn't matter.
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First of all, in /etc/hosts file ;
the first line indicates loopback address(IP) & the second line indicates the IP of the your machine followed by the hostname ( which is "unknown in your case as you have not assigned any hostname). The commented line in second line tells that , the IP is assigned by a dhcp-server.
you can assign router IP in a file called "/etc/defaultrouter".you only have to give the IP address of the router in this file.To make this as default router address for you system , you have reboot the system.
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Easy Networking Question

...I hope!
Ok.. I have a MBPro (Leopard) upstairs as my main computer and an older (non airport) Powerbook (Tiger) downstairs.
I connect to the web wirelessly with the MBPro
I connect to the web through Ethernet with the Powerbook
Can I link these two macs in anyway?
Obviously they are sharing the same broadband supply but can I do more? I'm sure I can sync them somehow. Please tell me how. I get a bit confused when it comes to networking!
Cheers
Pete

Yes you can.
I am not too sure about the link that "DaddyPacheck" provided - it is very old and seems to relate to Mac OS 9 more than Leopard.... In fact, all of the support documentation that I have found on Apple's website is out of date.
[This is a good background article|http://db.tidbits.com/article/9261].
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sharing
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Time Capsule Network question,

Hi there,
I just wanted to try and get a better overview of what's happening with my TC.
I have a 2010 bought TC,
I live in a relatively small apartment so range and signal is not an issue,
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Also what are you thoughts regarding my original point of having to set up the 5ghz manually to get clients to connect at over 144Mbps?
Thanks,
Regards,
John

I can't see the downside to this and think it should be default behaviour?
Remember that Apple always tends to try to make things simple. It's much easier to tell a typical user that his computer will connect to the best available signal and leave it at that. Probably 90% of users don't even understand what dual band is.
You have a small apartment so signal strength is not an issue. But, it's a fact that 5 GHz signals are not nearly as strong as 2.4 GHz signals. After all, you can't get something for nothing. In the case of 5 GHz, you gain speed, but give up distance capability and penetration power.
In a larger home, if the default were to have a separate name for the 5 GHz network, a lot of users would not be able to connect using 5 GHz if the signal has to pass through multiple walls or a ceiling and a few walls. Even if they might get the 5 GHz signal, it will be much weaker. They will have a better, stronger and more reliable connection at 2.4 GHz in this case. Isn't that what they want?
The default setting of the AirPort is to let computers connect to the "best" available signal quality. True, the "best" quality signal may not be the "fastest" signal in some cases. Still, for most users, having one network name for both bands makes a lot of sense.
Users who are interested in advanced features and setup have an excellent resource in the Apple AirPort Networks Guide. It's right there on the main forum page for all to see. Did you not see this?
So what frequency is this guest network broadcast in this configuration?
The Guest network is dual band as well. You can't assign a separate name to the 5 GHz band on the Guest network. Both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands use the same network name or SSID.
Also is it possible to broadcast 4 SSIDS?
No, 3 would be the maximum.
Also what are you thoughts regarding my original point of having to set up the 5ghz manually to get clients to connect at over 144Mbps?
As a regular member of the forum assisting dozens of users each week, I've stated my opinion above. I dislike trying to generalize, but Apple made the right decision for most users with the present default settings. As I said, we spend a good deal of time just trying to explain what +dual band+ is.
You appear to be an advanced user interested in advanced features and settings on the router. That's good. We could use some more help on the forums, so please check the forum pages often and help us out when you see a question from a user asking about the more advanced features of the router.

Networking Question

I have a T400 with Vista Business that has a couple of networking issues.
First, I have a lot of trouble of dropping connections using wireless, probably related to other threads here about the Intel 5300 AGN adaptor. This does not happen when wired.
More annoying is a problem I have when either wired or wireless where "Network discovery and file sharing" is always turned off, every time I want to access the network. I turn it on and then "make this network a private network" and I can see other devices on the network, HOWEVER they still can't discover my T400. I have several other "Vista" PC's running on the network without this issue.
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Own IBM/Lenovo Models T43, Y510, T400, M58, T410

You need to change the power saving settings in the properties of your WLAN card, not to save power, and also disallow windows from turning the card off in order to save power.
There is a setting in Access Connections which can influence file
and printer sharing. If you look at the profile's further settings,
there is an entry for network security, file and printer sharing needs
to be activated.
I think this is a great feature of AC as it
will override the windows settings, you can choose to allow or block in
each profile; e.g. allowed at home, but blocked at the Airport or Hotel.
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Secured wirless network question

hi
Can I access a secured wirless network by any chance?
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If I understand your question correctly.....NO. Accessing a secured network "by chance" is almost impossible. Now can some one access a secured network..... Maybe. Secured networks are protected by a password and if the password can be obtained then your in, however passwords on networks are highly encrypted. It would be a lot of work so some one would probably have a darn good reason to want in.

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Hi,
Right now my set-up is as follows:
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Hi Joe,
You got the short answer from
b Henry B,
which will save you lots of aggravation.
But if you're as curious, as I was, here's some more info I came across. I thought naively that a simple wireless 'repeater' would be straightforward and would work across different vendors of wireless basestations.
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b rarely
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Although apparently several folks have been successful extending the range of
b linksys
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b IF
they first update (swap out?) the linksys firmware with another (open source) version. Whew!
Anyhooow, for your situation, a brute-force option might be to replace the Ethernet cord between the Rogers cable modem and the D-LINK with a longer cable, so you can move the D-LINK closer to Living Room. (Or possibly get a longer CATV cable and move both the cable modem and D-LINK). You could even try increasing the range of the PowerBook with one of those Quickertek antennas.
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b cheaper and easier,
if it came to that, to just replace the D-LINK with a 2nd Airport Express, which would then inter-work with the Airport Express in the Living room, using
b WDS.
best of luck,
...ben

EA6900 setup on my home network question

Hello,
So I have a home network which has been working fine for several years and I had an older Linksys wifi router but with a new TV I needed the "n" protocal for streaming videos to a wireless connection to the TV.
SO, I installed the new EA6900 and got everyone connected and the TV is connected to it also.......VERY easy setup!! Thanks!
Now the hard part.
I want to have the wireless connection from the TV "see" and grab video from / through my Seagate Central.
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The Seagate is NOT hard wired to the EA6900. The reason being is that the Seagate is in a remote media cabinet and I only have a single cat5 cable coming to the EA6900 location AND the EA6900 CANNOT be located where the Seagate central is. (no signal would get to house.) AND the Seagate central cannot be at the EA6900 location.
My network is setup as follows.
Cable modem > Router > Seagate Central & EA6900
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

Found answer.
I needed to place the EA6900 in bridge mode. Now I can see the seagate just fine.
Both my main router and the EA6900 were trying to act as a main router.
I found a post about bridge mode and followed the below pasted instructions.
I did find that there were TWO IPv4 listed IP address so make sure you use the IP listed in the IPv4 "SECTION"
Hope this helps someone else!
Before you set the EA6900 to Bridge Mode, get the IPv4 address settings on the Status (Troubleshooting>>>>>Status>>>>Report), please take note of this. After that, set the EA6900 to Bridge Mode (Connectivity>>>>Internet Settings>>>>Edit>>>>>Bridge Mode). Select “Specify an IPv4 address “option and then set the IPV4 address that you have had on the router, please try to make sure that you set at least 1 DNS Server. This is one of the workarounds of your concern.

Simple Home Networking Question

Hi, I've got a dumb question.
I have an iMac with airport extreme and am going to purchase an iBook with airport extreme and want to buy a base station or router to use my internet connection wirelessly as well as share between the two machines.
The question is, do I need to make the base station or router connected to one of the computers at all times? Can I have the base station sitting somewhere and then connect both machines to it wirelessly? Or does on machine have to serve the base station?
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...because I was told they're a easier to use than the non-Apple routers.
That is all subjective. Non Apple routers are typically configured using any web browser. The Apple base stations all require the use of special Apple software.
Of the basic Airport base station, Airport Express, and Airport Extreme, which one is best if all I want to do is make my iBook wireless?
All of them are equally well at creating a wireless network.
If you have any devices which need to connect via Ethernet, you do not want the AirPort Express (AX).
Currently Apple is only selling the square 802.11b/g/n AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS) and the 802.11b/g AX.
The older round 802.11b/g AEBS and the AX have a USB port which supports a single compatible USB printer.
The new square 802.11b/g/n AEBS has a USB port which supports multiple USB hard drives and USB printers.
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I have a small office with 4-5 mac computers. I have a Mac mini set up as a file server and I use a standard cable connection for my internet service. I use a wired router (ethernet cables) all going to a netgear switch.
Just bought a mac mini and a drobo storage device. I have successfully set up the drobo on the mac mini and I can "see" the files and read & write to the external drive. I also have a few other people in the office -- which will need access to the drobo via the network, but have a few questions there:
1. I don't see the name of the other computers that can connect to the unit. When I get on one of the other machines and look for the drobo I can find it & edit files but from the mac-mini side, I can't see the proper name of the other computer. How do I do this?
2. Can I limit which folders are accessible within the drobo that attached to the mac mini
3. Am I missing anything from a safety standpoint? Can Anyone come into my office and access the files that are on the mac/mini drobo? Worse off, is the mac mini vulnerable to the outside world with this setup?
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It's been a week, so i don't know if you have already worked this out, but...
while I am not familiar with your router, when I have used linksys before, i find it better to use static IP addresses for everything. Try setting static IP addresses and make sure everyone's mask is 255.255.255.0. Some routers also have a flag to allow computers to see each other.
Best of luck.

Cisco ASA 5505 VPN Routing/Networking Question

I have a very basic question about Cisco ASA 5505 IPsec Site to Site VPNs. I want to install a Cisco ASA 5505 at a Data Center, in a LAN subnet that utilizes publicly routable IP addresses. I would like to install a second Cisco ASA 5505 in a remote branch office as its peer.
Regardless of whether I use publicly routable IPs at the branch office in the "inside" network or non-routable IPs, how would the devices and servers at the Data Center know to route IP packets destined for the branch office back through the Cisco ASA instead of through the default gateway at the Data Center? I can see accomplishing this if every single device at the Data Center is configured with routing table entries, but that isn't feasible. It also isn't feasible to use the Cisco ASA 5505 as the default gateway for all of the devices as the Data Center, allowing it to decide where the traffic should go.
What am I missing? Is the solution to try to map branch office IPs to IP addresses within the Data Center's LAN subnet so that all of the traffic is on the same subnet?

You can do it in several different ways.
One way is to tell the server that if it has traffic to network x then it needs to go to the ASA all other traffic is to head for the default gateway.
In windows this is done via the route command
do not forget to make it "persistent" otherwise the route will disapear when your reboot the server.
in unix/linux
It is also the route command
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