Question--Two servers, two ethernet cables, one airport input.

I have two servers, Earthlink and Sbc, How do I hook both of these to the one input of the airport? Arne
powermac g5 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

See the answer already posted.
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Deskjet 6940 connected via ethernet cable to Airport, will not print

Hello,
I used to run my HP Deskjet 6940 printer using a USB connection. I recently installed an Apple Airport Extreme so I can print wirelessly. As required, the printer is now connected to the Airport using an ethernet cable, and the green network light is on. On the advice of an HP rep via telephone, I uninstalled all older HP software and reinstalled HP software downloaded from the HP website.
When I try to add the printer on my "System Preferences," it opens a panel that contains the following options:
Protocol: Automatically chooses "line printer daemon--LPD"
Address: Blank but allows me type in the assigned IP address
Print using: No idea.
Two more things: when I open HP device manager, and select 'configure a networked printer, all network confirguation info appears fine but the manager does not allow me to "apply" it. Not sure if this is important but no printer utilities show up in my utlities folder since the new software download. Thanks.
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It looks like you are running a Mac.
First of all, the driver for the Deskjet 6940 is built into the Mac OS. You really didn't need to download extra stuff from www.hp.com (sorry about the bad advice).
Next, let's verify that the printer is on the network. From Safari, select Bookmarks, Show All Bookmarks. Select Bonjour from the left hand pane and verify that the Deskjet 6940 appears on the list of devices found on your network.
Next, follow these instructions to reset the Mac printing subsystem: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1341
Now add the printer from the Print & Fax applet under System Preferences by pressing the [+] button. The Deskjet 6940 should be listed as one of the Bonjour kind of printers. Select it and then press Add.
I think that should do it.
Regards / Jim B / Wireless Enthusiasts
( While I'm an embedded wireless systems engineer at work, on this forum I do not represent my former employer, Hewlett-Packard, or my current employer, Microsoft )
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Using Time Capsule as an external hard drive with ethernet cable, disabling airport, using wifi from laptop

Okay, first of all, I admit right off the bat that I should have bought an external hard drive. Now I am stuck with a 3TB Time Capsule that I want to tie to my laptop via ethernet cable, without having the Time Capsule disable my laptop's current wifi. So, I want to be able to back up my laptop (using the ethernet cable and Time Machine) to my Time Capsule drive and still be able to be surfing the internet as if I didn't have Time Capsule at all.
My MacBook Pro is OS 10.7.5.
Any thoughts are much appreciated.

This is not difficult.
You need to work out one issue beforehand..
What IP address range does the computer get from the wifi router.. ?
If you get 10.0.x.x then you will need to adjust the settings on the TC to a different IP range.. eg 192.168.1.1 for the TC.
Tell me what IP you get on wireless. I will assume for now you are getting 192.168.x.x
In the ethernet setup on the laptop, choose configure IPv4 Manually.
Give the computer an IP address say 10.0.1.10 with 255.255.255.0 subnet. Do not fill in router or dns values.
You can now find the ethernet linked TC and get internet via the airport.
On the TC itself, just leave it in router mode.. and ignore all the errors.. turn off the wireless.

Two Thunderbolt Ethernet Cables - one for internet, one for Raspberry Pi

Hi, I'm running against a wall with this issue.
I recently purchased a second Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter, so that I could use one to connect to the internet via ethernet, and another, to connect my rMBP with a Raspberry Pi via ethernet. Try as I might, I cannot get both to work at the same time - - I've tried changing the sort-order to be either RPI-TB & Ethernet-TB, or Ethernet-TB followed by RPI-TB - -- I'm simply unable to connect to the RPI's IP-address (which would be 192.168.2.200) if I have functional internet on at the same time.
How should I go about fixing this issue - I would really rather not be using Wi-Fi.

Hi, JerBear65,
Thanks for the suggestion; I followed your instructions and found:
1. All of my listed servers are in use, so that wasn't it.
2. The e-mail account configuration can't be the problem since, when I created the e-mail account(s) to try the various alternative OS X and OS 9 mail applications, I had to create the accounts fresh in those programs (I never normally used them before). Also, when I tried other existing e-mail accounts that I have on the same ISP in my normal e-mail activity, the problem was consistently the same throughout all the trial runs. It would have been unlikely that ALL of the settings for ALL of my seven e-mail accounts were simultaneously corrupted.
On the other hand, if I'm correct in assuming a corrupt preference file somewhere, it would have to be related to sending e-mail in OS X, yet NOT be accessed when sending e-mail while in OS X but sending through Classic 9.
That's what makes this problem so weird...
Regards, and thanks for your suggestion, and any others you might have,
Alan Paul
==============================================
Hello Alan Paul,
The first thing you might try is from the desktop.
Choose Go>go to folder and type library/scripts/mail
scripts and hit Go. Then choose manage SMTP
servers.scpt
his will open the Script Editor and you would chose
Run. After it runs, it will show all mail severs not
in use and you can delete them.
When you close Script Editor it will ask if you want
to save the changes click YES so the changes will
take affect. Then restart and see if that helps.
The only other thing would be to delete that email
account and then reconfigure.
JerBear65

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I currently have my printer connected to my Airport Express via Ethernet, and have also been able to connect my DTV box this way as well. However, currently I can't connect both at the same time.
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I have an old hub, I think the 10/100 type. That should be more than enough for printing, but probably not for the DTV box?
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5606
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4199
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I have an Airport Extreme as my main 'base' for our wireless network. I purchased an Airport Express today with the notion of using it to extend my network in the following way: I want to connect an iMac and a printer to the Express (using Ethernet and USB cables respectively) and have the Express serve as a remote for the Extreme base. I have found a number of websites saying this is possible, but none explain how to. I tried the WDS option, which failed to work. I later saw posts here saying that was not the optimal scenario. I'm afraid the 5Ghz/2.4Ghz settings combined with Airport ID addresses has pushed me past my competency!
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I'm having an Airport Extreme fifth generation in my living room. I bought yesterday an Airport Express to extend the range of my WIFI in the house and I put in in my bed room. The two devices are connected together via an ethernet cable, from airport extreme (lan 1 port) to airport express to (wan port). Now from the airport utility what configuration I have to set to the airport express in order to extend my wifi range? Inside the wireless tab what i have to select in the network mode?
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How to split mailservices among two servers (no xsan yet)

How can I split the load on our mailserver (getting rid of the daily VM growth and potential crashes / down time) by using TWO servers as opposed to one?
Apparently the root of the cause is too many imapd connections and DirectoryServices then gets in to problems stalling the whole server (EG see my latest 3-4 posts)
SMTP out of the house should not pose a problem, and access for the end users to the (manually moved) imap data location should be handled easily after pointing the users to the second mailserver in WGM.
BUT incoming mail makes me unsure - port 25 can only be pointed to one server on the LAN (naturally , so how do I configure the ("primary") mailserver to make sure that the local mail-delivery (for the users that use the second mailserver) will actually be sent to this second server.
I would think that this should be easily possible - somehow - and that the LMTP service will be the part responsible for this change.
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The server is still pretty much having the default setup, though I have implemented Pterobytes "Frontline Spam Defense", but:
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cat /etc/launchd.conf
limit maxproc 1000 2000
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imaps cmd="imapd -s" listen="imaps" prefork=0
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I got this advise from Pterobyte a year ago when I had problems with the performance of the old mailserver (the hw was a G4, the hint helped a lot!)
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But I presume that if the parameter is not set in my cinf file, then the default files settings are in effect(?)
I was thinking of changing this value just yesterday, but after reading the man imapd.conf I thought that it would not make any diference, since 30 is "the minimum":
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I guess I have to make this chang anyway
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Today's top output looks like this (the server was rebooted 24 hours ago!)
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<pre>Processes: 171 total, 2 running, 169 sleeping... 741 threads 10:57:37
Load Avg: 0.21, 0.16, 0.06 CPU usage: 3.39% user, 3.39% sys, 93.23% idle
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<pre>Fri Feb 6 12:42:00 CET 2009: 210
Fri Feb 6 12:43:00 CET 2009: 210
Fri Feb 6 12:44:00 CET 2009: 210
Fri Feb 6 12:45:00 CET 2009: 209
Fri Feb 6 12:46:00 CET 2009: 210
Fri Feb 6 12:47:00 CET 2009: 209
Fri Feb 6 12:48:00 CET 2009: 210
</pre>
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<pre>Feb 6 12:42:35 einstein DirectoryService[26]: Potential VM growth in DirectoryService since client PID: 0, has 875 open references when the warning limit is 500.
</pre>
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<pre>
CPU usage: 300-s Reads/sec: Writes/sec: Net in/sec: Net out/sec: kernel
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12:46:29 8.0 3.8 88.3 87.4 0 0.0 65 3.1 2138 21.3 2081 11.4 3.7
12:46:39 5.8 3.7 90.6 87.5 4 0.1 30 2.8 2166 21.2 2108 11.2 3.9
12:46:49 5.4 4.5 90.1 87.5 0 0.0 22 3.1 2210 21.4 2180 11.7 4.0
12:46:59 10.3 4.6 85.1 87.3 0 0.0 54 3.1 2123 21.2 2091 11.4 3.8
12:47:09 13.8 5.2 81.0 86.9 0 0.0 46 3.2 2110 21.2 2071 11.4 3.9
12:47:19 4.7 3.1 92.2 87.0 4 0.1 24 2.6 2109 21.1 2073 11.4 3.7
12:47:29 5.0 3.8 91.2 87.6 0 0.0 58 3.3 2136 21.2 2110 11.3 3.8
12:47:39 5.4 3.6 91.0 87.6 35 0.5 61 2.9 2091 21.3 2042 11.4 3.8
12:47:49 7.9 5.9 86.2 87.5 61 0.7 54 4.8 2424 23.8 2409 13.8 4.5
12:47:59 5.2 4.1 90.8 87.4 0 0.0 52 3.7 2224 21.4 2222 12.2 4.0
12:48:09 15.9 5.9 78.2 87.0 0 0.0 25 3.0 2146 21.1 2127 11.8 4.0
12:48:19 7.4 3.4 89.2 87.1 0 0.0 15 2.6 2129 21.2 2111 11.8 3.6
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12:48:39 4.9 3.7 91.4 88.0 0 0.0 18 2.6 2128 21.0 2118 11.8 3.7
12:48:49 5.6 4.5 89.9 88.1 0 0.0 35 2.7 2097 21.2 2082 11.7 3.7
12:48:59 6.8 4.6 88.7 88.0 0 0.0 60 3.1 2204 21.4 2228 12.1 4.0
12:49:09 5.6 4.0 90.4 88.0 0 0.0 15 2.9 2091 21.3 2072 11.7 3.6
12:49:20 13.9 4.9 81.2 87.6 0 0.0 14 2.7 2103 21.2 2084 11.6 3.7
12:49:30 9.1 4.0 86.9 87.5 1 0.1 70 2.8 2111 21.1 2129 12.1 3.8
12:49:40 7.4 4.8 87.8 87.3 1 0.0 52 4.5 2195 21.4 2200 12.0 4.1
</pre>

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I'm using an AIRPort Express 802.11n for my digital mixer MACKIE DL1608 which is controlled by my iPad ie. iPad (app is Masterfader) talks to airport express, from LAN out to ethernet to mixer. My question is: can i use the one airport express to also run another device by using some kind of double LAN out adapter? I also want the same iPad to controll my DMX lights ie. iPad (app is Luminair) talks to airport express that connects from LAN out to ethernet to lights controller.
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