Small Home Network.........

I have a AEBS serving up for my wife's i-Book wirelessly and an i-Mac thru the LAN off the AEBS .I would like to set-up my Dell and another PC slave thru a 5-port Linksys switch to recieve my Verizon DSL also. Could I send the DSL straight to the switch and have the AEBS come off the switch also or do I need a seperate router for the AEBS and the switch?? Thanks...
iMac 500mhz Summer 2000 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

No, you cannot use the switch between the modem and the AEBS. To do so would probably violate your ISP terms of usage (more than one IP address being pulled from the ISP), and you would create two logical networks (those devices connected to the switch, and those to the AEBS) which would not see each other AND those devices connected to the switch would be accessible to any hacker looking for something to do. You should connect the switch to the LAN (<->) port of the AEBS, and all your ethernet connected devices should be connected to the switch.

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Hello i'd like to set up a small home network. The component i have are:
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2 macbook pro laptops and 1 mini all with wireless
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Tim

Hi Tim,
You've accidentally posted this on the iPod Mini forum, not the Mac Mini!
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Hi,
How do you setup a Power Mac 6500 running Mac OS 9.1 to automatically mount it's hard drive at startup onto a PowerMac G4 running Mac OSX 10.2.8? I have a small network at home that I'd like to cross-mount hard drives across.
I can mount the volume just fine manually from either machine. I just don't know the GUI or command on 9.1 to do the mounting automatically at startup.
Any ideas, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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Here's the (partial) answer I was looking for.
To go from a remote machine --> 6500, do the following:
1) Open "Chooser".
2) Select "Apple Share".
3) Type in the DNS name of the computer you want to mount onto the 6500 in the box labeled "Server IP Address". If TCP/IP isn't active, then type in the numerical IP address.
4) When prompted, type in the password for your keychain, and then the account name and password on the remote machine that you want to automount.
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Here is a page to get you started with Windows XP.
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I have a Verizon static, fiber connection for internet access to a Netgear, FVX538 router.
From the router, I have an Airport Extreme and two (2) Airport Expresses extending the network thru the house.
I need to have DHCP enabled so my kids can come home at all times and be able to easily gain access with their laptops.
My question is, which machine should be providing the addresses?? The router or the Airport Extreme??
Or should I just forget DHCP and go to static?
Many thanks

My question is, which machine should be providing the addresses?? The router or the Airport Extreme??
As you know, both are routers, but if you will have any devices, other than the AEBSn, connected to the Netgear, then you will want the Netgear to provide both NAT & DHCP services. In turn, the AEBSn would need to be configured as a bridge to allow the Netgear to provide these services to all the devices connected (wired or wirelessly) to the network.

Help setting up small home network with PC and an imac!!!?

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I have a trusty iMac G4 (17" version) a new Toshiba PC Laptop from work, a Canon Pixma 450 printer and an internet connection.
I am wanting to connect the above so that both computers can use the internet connection and printer and possibly share files with each other.
My Mac has no wireless facility.
The wireless router I am looking at has 4 ports at the back for wired connection which I was going to plug the Mac and Printer into, plus a port for internet.
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Will this work with a Mac and PC?
How do I file share from Mac to PC?
If I have a 7.0Mb internet connection will a 54Mbs router be enough, will it affect file sharing speed?
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This should help you:
Setting up a local Ethernet network
Equipment needed:
Cable/DSL modem: usually supplied by the ISP
Gateway/Router: at least a 4-port router, but you can get them with more ports if you need them. (Alternatively, you can get a switching hub to provide additional ports.)
CAT 5 Ethernet cables: one cable is needed for each device connected to the router plus one to connect the router to the cable/DSL modem.
1. Connect the Cable/DSL modem to the router's WAN port using an Ethernet cable (CAT 5 for 10/100.)
2. Connect each computer to the router's LAN ports using Ethernet cables. If you have network printers, etc. connect them to a LAN port on the router. If the router doesn't have enough ports, then you will need to purchase one with more ports or connect a switching hub to the router.
3. Now, for each Mac open its Network preference pane. Select the Built-in Ethernet port for configuration. In the TCP/IP configuration window set the connection/configuration to DHCP from the dropdown menu. Set your Location dropdown menu to Automatic and the Show dropdown menu to Built-in Ethernet.
4. Shut everything off. First, turn on the Cable/DSL modem and wait for the connect lights to indicate it has connected to the ISP. Next, turn on the router and wait to see if the Cable/DSL modem's communication status light starts to flicker. Also, if there is a status light on the router it should show a connection. Last, power up the computer. If all is well the TCP/IP control panel or Network pref pane should indicate an IP has been obtained from the router, usually in the 192.168.nnn.nnn range. If it's 169.xxx.xxx.xxx then you don't really have a connection.
5. If you have network printers connected each printer will have to be assigned its own unique IP address in the router's address range (usually 192.168.nnn.nnn.) Assign the printer(s) IP addresses above the number of computers that will be connected but within the router's DHCP address assignment range. Consult the router's documentation for that information. Consult the printer manual for how to assign an IP address to the printer. When you install the printer driver and/or Add the printer you will add it as an IP printer or LPR printer and use the IP address you assigned to the printer.
6. If you have an USB printer then connect it to one of the computers, install the proper printer driver (if one is not provided with OS X), then add the printer using the Print Setup Utility. Verify the printer works. Then open the Sharing preference pane and turn on Printer Sharing. On the other computers install and/or add the printer using the Print Setup Utility. It should appear under the category of Shared Printers.
7. To share files use the Sharing preference pane and turn on Personal File Sharing. If you want to share from all computers then turn on file sharing for all the connected computers.

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I have an iBook G4, an old iMac (running OS 9), an inkjet printer, a laser printer, Airport Extreme and an Internet modem. I would like to hook all of this up so that both Macs are connected to both printers, both Macs are connected to the Internet and that I have wireless connection for internet and printing (to both printers) available to the iBook. (The iMac is not Airport compatible.)
Right now, everything works, but we have to unplug the printers from one Mac to the Airport when we want to print. Is there a single piece of hardware we need to hook this all together, or is it going to be more complicated than that?
I know just enough about this stuff to get by and/or to be dangerous, so any advice would be appreciated.

You've got a cable or DSL modem, right? I happen to have DSL, and my DSL modem is actually a combo DSL modem/router/wireless access point. So life is a bit easier for me. But both of my sons are on cable, and I think they both have a single wired port coming out of their cable modem, to which they have to connect a wireless router (like an Airport Extreme Base Station). Are you like that?
If so, while I don't have an AEBS, as far as I know, an AEBS has firewall capability in it, and can configure for DHCP IP address assignment or static IP address assignment or a mix of both (i.e., it routes).
If my presupposition is true, there are a couple of things I would do to configure your network. First would be to put your DSL/cable modem in bridge mode (so the IP address assigned by your ISP is passed through to the external IP address side of your AEBS) and then configure the AEBS for NAT (i.e., it doles out 10.0.x.x addresses to everything in your residential LAN). Why? Because if both devices are doing NAT, then the modem is giving your BS a 192.168.x.x address, and then your BS is giving your computers a 10.0.x.x address. Some applications (most notably iChat) do not like double-NATting traffic through two firewalls/routers.
I'm not sure whether a device in bridge mode can have an active firewall or not. Never tried it. If it can, enable your firewall on the modem. If it can't, enable the firewall in the AEBS.
Now, check whether your printers can support accepting DHCP address assignments from a router. They may need to have static IP addresses (i.e., you may need to manually assign IP addresses to the devices). I don't know enough about AEBSs to know whether they can support a mix of static and dynamic IP addresses on the local LAN side, or whether it is all of one or all of the other. So you may need to disable DHCP in the AEBS and give it (on the residential LAN side) and your computers and printers a manually assigned IP address. If it supports a mix of static and DHCP, just give them IP addresses in the static address range, and your computers can still be configured to accept DHCP assignments from the AEBS. If the printers support DHCP, never mind all this drivel.
If you don't have enough wired ports for the iMac and one or more of the printers are not wireless-capable, connect a printer or two to your iMac via USB, and enable printer sharing in System Preferences > Sharing on the iMac. Other computers on your residential LAN should be able to find the printers so long as the iMac is powered up and printer sharing has been enabled on it.
Now have that other martini!
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Trouble seting up a small home network

i have cable internet wich works fine but i need to connect my apple to another mac the old one is running panther so i know its possible but i dont know what i need to go to to set it up i would appreciate some help on this matter thanks
brandon

Hi Brandon,
Based on the subject of your post (ie. you do actually want a network rather than to just temporarily connect your 2 machines) what you want is a router. This will connect to your cable modem and then share that connection amongst several other machines by creating your own little subnet. They're reasonably cheap.
The two flavours to consider are wireless (which will also include some wired ports) or wired only. There are quite a number of brands/models and, while OS X plays by the standards so it shouldn't matter, you should probably look for one that explicitly states it is compatible with Mac OS X.
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Printing problems with a shared printer on home network

Hi
I just upgraded all my Macs to Tiger. We have been running Panther very smoothly since it came out. We have a small home network running on a standard hub. The USB printer is attached to one of my G4s, and the rest of the network uses this as a printer connection.
I've been successfully printing to our HP 920C printer from all my programs for years now. Now that I've gone to Tiger, my printer Utility sees and registers the printer, but when I try to print to it from any of the Apple text programs, there is no response. I print from Illustrator with no trouble at all. TextEdit for example, sees the printer, but when I click the "PRINT" button from the print dialogue nothing happens. I am wondering why this is.
To note: I have added a line of code to the Terminal, which unblocks the system for Adobe Distiller to create PDFs (sudo killall -HUP cupsd). This was reccomended by Adobe with Panther in order to bypass a PDF function whithin Panther. I wonder if it was a mistake to add it to Tiger, and that it is this that is blocking TextEdit. If this is the case how do I remove the command, and reset the system to its default PDF setting.

It was a simple problem after all. Sadly my hard disc was about to snuff it. I changed disk, reinsalled Tiger and all is as smooth as ever.

Leopard not seeing Windows shares on a home network - one solution

I have a small home network with a MacBook Pro, MacMini and a PC connected by Ethernet and a MacBook and a Powerbook connecting remotely. Recently upgraded to Leopard and initially could see the PC in the sharing tab of the sidebar of the Finder window. This then disappeared and was not fixed by the 10.5.1 update.
I spent hours messing around and now seem to have fixed the problem to the extent that the PC now shows up in the sharing tab spontaneously and this survives a restart.
First I looked at the workgroup issue in the WINS tab of the advanced settings in the Network preference pane. This wouldn’t ‘stick’ and the solution (posted elsewhere) is to duplicate the location setting, delete the old one and then use the new duplicated one, then you can enter a workgroup name and it will stick. The Mac doesn’t seem to detect a workgroup and I only found what the workgroup name was later. There was a greyed out NetBios name for my mac however. I also made sure that SMB sharing was enabled in the options dialog box in the sharing pane, (if you disable AFP sharing and close the window with SMB enabled the message in the sharing pane then says ‘Windows sharing enabled’ if both AFP and SMB are enabled then Windows sharing is not mentioned)
I intermittently tried to connect to server on smb://192.168 etc. and I kept getting a connection failed dialog box.
Still getting nowhere, so went to the PC to have a look at that. Found the correct workgroup name by searching the help for “computer, name” and this directed me to find the computer and workgroup names. I went back to the Mac and put in the workgroup name but still no joy. Went back to the PC and looked at ‘my network places’ and sure enough the public folder on my mac appeared and if I put a file into it I could open it on the PC.
I then looked at the firewall settings on the PC (I’m using BitDefender 2008 total security) and set the Mac to be a trusted computer on the network. Went back to the mac and tried connecting via the connect to server dialog box and this worked!!! I was asked for my windows password and having put this in the shared folders on the PC appeared. The PC appeared in the sidebar with a generic icon and the IP address (192.168.etc) next to it instead of the computer name. However, after I ejected the PC to see if I could connect again, it suddenly popped up again spontaneously in the sidebar with the usual PC-type computer name, i.e. a name followed by a random seeming alphanumeric string. If I select the PC in the sidebar and then click on the ‘connect as…’ button in the Finder window the shared folders appear.
As I say this ability to see the PC has now survived a restart so fingers crossed. I can't say which bits of the above were the important ones but it did seem to work.
Maybe this might help others
Cheers
Iain

I recently installed Leopard and just today wanted to connect to one of my Windows machines. After a Google search and some forum browsing I did the following:
- System Prefs > Network > Ethernet > Advanced... > WINS > Workgroup
- entered my Workgroup name (WORKGROUP)
- clicked "Ok" then "Apply"
- Restarted
- Apple Key + "K" smb://192.168.1.1
- Authentication box appeared; I typed in my creditials
- Then I noticed that the finder sidebar had populated the "shared" section with my Workgroup computers (all two of them). Not sure if it was populated after the restart but sure it wasn't there before.
- Just restarted and the "Shared" section is still populated with the Windows workgroup machines.
I'm very glad this is working as I have the "no WiFi" bug.

MacBookPro suddenly stopped linking to my home network by Wi-Fi.

Without me making any system updates or changes, my MacbookPro today put up the following message
"Another device on the network is using your computer’s IP address (192.168.0.5).
Try connecting again later. If you continue to have problems, change the IP address of this computer or the IP address of the other device. Contact the network administrator if you need more information."
A little later my MacbookPro stopped communicating with the internet and with my printer, both of which it normally does by wi-fi. The internet connection was previously via my small home network which also incorporates an iMac, a Time Capsule, a Canon printer and a router.
When I attempt now to communicate via wi-fi from the MacbookPro I cannot access the internet or my printer. However, the MacbookPro is still able to communicate with the iMac by wi-fi.
The MacbookPro can connect to the internet if I connect it by an ethernet cable to the Time Capsule.
I've tried setting up a new wi-fi connection in Preferences/Network, but can't do so as I don't know what to enter for the IP address and the Subnet Mask. The message under 'Status' in Preferences/Network when I select 'Wi-fi' in left panel is "Wi-Fi has the self-assigned IP address 169.254.85.222 and will not be able to connect to the Internet."
So I still can't use wi-fi to connect to my Home Network, the internet or my printer.
I have reset the Time Capsule, but the problem persists.
The iMac appears to be operating normally. It is connected to the Time Capsule by ethernet cable, as usual.
Any suggestions about what has caused this to happen and how to fix it?

I'm a bit surprised I have had no response to this question. Have I supplied too much information?
NOPE! We need all the details we can get! You can never supply too much info.
Sometimes, we don't know the answers or the answers may be already supplied in previous threads and/or Knowledge Base. You will have to do a forum & KB search if you have not already done so.
That being said, will give it a shot...
Try the basics first:
Change your router channel number. Most times this works & is all you have to do.
Disconnect & reconnect your modem. unplug it for about 10 seconds. Plug it back in. Do the same for Apple’s routers. Wait for everything to reboot.
System Preferences>Network
Click the Assist Me button.
In the next window that pops up, click the Diagnostic button & do the necessary.
Research Knowledge Base for network problems that pertain to the OS that is currently installed on your computer. See these basic networking KB Articles: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1401 AirPort troubleshooting guide
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4628 Wi-Fi: How to troubleshoot Wi-Fi connectivity
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2712 Using network locations in Mac OS X
Manually provided DNS server addresses are higher priority than DHCP's
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1714 Solutions for connecting to the Internet, setting up a small network, and troubleshooting
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What to do when you can't connect to the Internet
Also, run the Airport Utility app which is located inside the Utilities folder.
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If using a Linksys router, contact LinkSys Customer Support and/or post in their forums.
If using Apple's Airport, please re-post over in one of the AirPort Forums.
I don't know what to enter for the IP address and the Subnet Mask.
You can this info directly from your ISP.

Using WET610N and WRT320N as bridge within home network

Hi - I have a small home network, in which the DSL modem is some way away from the room in which I do my work. Currently, I use a pair of WAP54G access points to bridge between the two locations, and everything works OK, if slowly.
Today, I bought a WRT320N router and a WET610N bridge to replace the access points, but I having a real problem configuring them to work. I think the basic problem is with the IP addresses that they use. The current configuration is:
DSL Modem -> Access Point -- several yards -- Access Point -> PC
and I want to go to:
DSL Modem -> WRT320N -- several yards -- WET610N -> PC
I guess my basic question is this a reasonable idea or should I be using something different for the WRT320N end? I don't want to change the basic IP address subnet (192.168.1.*) and I want to keep the DSL modem as the default gateway (192.168.1.254). When I installed the WRT320, it assigned itself an IP address of 192.168.0.1 and the WET610N an IP address of 192.168.0.101, and I think the DSL modem also assigned the WRT320 an IP address of 192.168.1.99, so I am a little confused as to which IP addresses I should be setting where.
If anyone can provide some guidance I would be most grateful. Thanks, Martin

I have a similar question, but slightly different and a few things are unclear to me, I will explain:
I want to setup the following:
Internet through DSL-Thompson TG 789 VN router ---> several yards --> Linksys WRT320N --> wired computer netwerk with | | printer
   | |
   ---> Wireless Netwerk --> laptops / phones <--- (WAN depending on strongest signal)
   |
   ---> several servers
The Thompson does the DHCP and routing. It is the gateway through the internet, IP 192.168.2.254 (mask 255.255.255.0).
I can't replace the thompson since it is delivered by my provider. SSID = BertB
I want to achieve that all the compuers / laptops / phone and printer are in one network and can communicate with each other
So the only possibility, as far as I can see, is to set up the Linksys as a bridge.
My question is how I could do this?
I suggest that I have to do the following at the Linksys but have some questions as mentioned below:
SSID = BertB (the same)
channel = different from the channel used by Thompson
DHCP = off
IP = fixed (192.168.2.253)
gateway = 192.168.2.254
DNS = ??? I don't know what to do here ???
Do I have to setup something in the advanced routing, and if so, what?
Firewall --> on or off?
Security --> WPA2/WPA (mixed mode) same as at the thompson?
Security Word --> same as at the thompson?
Is this all, or do I forgot some steps?
Is my assumption OK?
Another question is how the thompson and the Linksys will build a connection with each other, or will this happen automatically through the above setup?
Do I have to put the mac address of the thompson in the Linksys and/or vice versa?
Well this are a lot of questions and I hope someone can help me out.
Many thanks for answering my questions in advance.
Best Regards, Bert Buiskool

Sample secure home network

Dear,
I'm looking for a sample architecture and configuration sample for a small home network.
I have 2 x WAP321, SMB-SG 300 switch and ISA firewall.
Thanks.
Joris

Joris,
Thank you for clarifying that the firewall is an ASA not an ISA. A couple of suggestions to get started.
Install ASDM
If you haven't already, plug in the ASA and connect your PC to it. Your PC should get an IP via DHCP. Browse to the default gateway and on the homepage will be a link to download ASDM. Download and install it. Use ASDM to connect to your ASA going forward. It's a pretty nice UI that will make configuring the ASA much easier than CLI, unless your very comfortable with CLI.
Ensure you need outside access to Home Control
Since your connection is PPPoE, I'm also assuming you don't have a static IP from your provider meaning that your public IP may change from time to time. The reason this is important is because if you are needing the ability to browse to your Home Network from outside your home, then you would either need a static IP that never changes (preferred) or utilize something like DDNS (less reliable). All that said, there is a distinct possibility that you wouldn't need to worry about any of that. Most, if not all, of the Home Control providers make this part easy by acting as a bridge between your outside access to your Home Control and your internal Home Control system. What that means is that your Home Control system is checking into their system on a regular basis and their system leverages that regular checkin to control it. You browse to their website to gain access to your Home Control system. This generally doesn't require a static IP or any special configuration on your end. It just requires that your Home Contol system has access to the internet and that certain ports are open.
I'd recommend contacting your Home Control system provider and ask them if you need a Static IP at your house to control your system. Odds are the answer will be no. I'd also ask them what ports need to be open from your Home Control system to their system for everything to function correctly. They should provide you with a list of ports (i.e. TCP 80, TCP 443, UDP xxx, etc.)
Not only do you need this information to determine how to configure your firewall and if you have everything necessary from your ISP, but also to determine if you really need another SSID for your Home Control or if it can also be on your Home Network. Some people may still prefer to put it on it's own SSID, for security reasons, but this also makes setting up and managing the network more complex for it to truly be secure. For it to truly be secure, we would not only put it on its own SSID, but we would ensure that nothing else has access to the SSID. So to directly connect to it internally, you would have to disconnect from your Home Network SSID and attach to the Home Control Network SSID. If you're not going to make it secure, there's really no point to putting it on its own SSID.
Shawn Eftink
CCNA/CCDA
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