Questions about configuring, troubleshooting or using connections that one device uses to talk to another.
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Is it possible to connect automatically to a server on login without an opened window?
I know how to have the connection established at login, but I don't know if it's possible that the Finder doesn't open a window of the server root...
I've tried the "Hide" checkbox, but this doesn't ...
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How to monitor network traffic on a router from a Mac?
A company have a High Speed internet connection (30 MB/s) witch is enough for 10-15 computer. But for a week, there is almost no bandwidth "left" just taking the email take a long time or failed. ...
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Reverse SSH tunnel on the iPad
Is is possible to set up a reverse SSH tunnel on an iPad?
I'd like to be to do basic nmap TCP scans and use some other tools that the iPad doesn't have on remote networks. So my idea is after I've ...
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How to add some additional DNS search domains without ignoring the DHCP ones?
I just want to add my own list of Search Domains but without overriding the ones returned by the DHCP?
As anyone would imagine I already tried to add them to Network > Advanced > DNS but adding them ...
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Is there a way to configure Mac OS X Snow Leopard server as an Internet gateway with bandwidth tracking per user?
I'd like to use Mac OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard Server as an Internet gateway. My router would connect to the Internet facing NIC on my Mac Mini server and the internal NIC would connect to a WiFi ...
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Monitoring and limiting internet usage
I am currently having to access the internet through a wireless dongle which is giving me a 2gb per month download allowance. I need to be really cautious about my internet usage.
Just this afternoon ...
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Share iPhone WIFI with computer over USB?
Due to a water leakage, we had to move offices temporarily. In our temp offices, we have WIFI network, but not cabled network (yet).
Since my computer doesn't have WIFI (it's a stationary desktop) I ...
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How to have multiple (wireless) network profiles?
is the following scenario possible in Mac OSX?
I want to assign specific TCP/IP configurations for different wireless networks that I connect to, and I want the system to remember the settings.
For ...
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Cant see MacBook in Windows Network
I'm trying to access my MacBook from a Windows PC over the network. The computer is connected to the router, the MacBook is connected to a WAP, which is connected to a switch, which is connected to ...
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Making Airport appear as a computer
I live in a building where I am connected to the university network for internet. I am not allowed to connect a router, or I will be kicked off the network. (This rule was created after wrongly ...
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How do I know the IP addresses of other computers in my network?
Say that I have two computers connected to the same network.
I know that from computer1 and file sharing enabled I can snoop around inside computer2.
But say that there is something interesting on ...
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How does finder show a pc computer name but I can't ping it?
I have a MBP running 10.6. This is my first mac.
In finder, it sees the windows 7 machines and windows home server just find. I can click on those computers and see their shares. If I open up ...
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iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch apps that use ports other than 80 and friends
I'm a network administrator at a small college. In the past, we've kept a fairly open wireless network, but recently a few throughput issue have made us consider locking it down a bit more, in a play ...
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Alias for network drive
In the Finder > Connect To Server window I have an IP address I connect to. Is there a way to make a nickname or alias for this server?
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iPads in the corporate world
Is anyone using an iPad in the corporate world? If you are:
Is it better than carrying around a laptop, and if so, how?
Do iPads connect to networks like notebooks do?
Can I remote into my Windows ...
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App that scans local network for shared folders?
I'm looking for an application that can scan my local network and report any shared folders it finds. I've tried iStumbler, but it only gives you information on machines that are sharing with ...
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Neighbor's Airport Extreme extending my wireless network?
I noticed a new machine on my network -- it's my next-door neighbor's Airport Extreme!
My network is set up with a WPA2 Personal password, and I don't believe that he's cracking passwords to steal ...
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how to use ipad to access webserver on macbook air
my webserver software is nginx which runs very well on macbook air using mac os x 10.7.5
when i go to http://myapp.localhost on my macbook air, i can access my website perfectly which is running on ...
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How can I turn off my Time Capsule's wireless router?
I have a useful wireless network, and then my Time Capsule's wireless network, which overpowers the other network when the computer is next to it. I don't know if it's misconfigured, but the Time ...
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How do I unset an IP address set with ifconfig?
I recently used ifconfig en1 1.2.3.4 to set the IP address of a network interface (specifically, the wireless card) on a Mac… How can I remove/unset it?
Using the graphical network configuration tool ...
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Is there a good way to distribute WPA2 keys within the 'enterprise'
Due to this whole cloud thing, we've started to end up with more and more macs within our enterprise network. And, like most enterprises, we've got an internal wireless network that we'd rather not ...
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How do you set the TCP congestion control algorithm on OS X?
I would like to set the TCP congestion control algorithm to Westwood+. Is this possible in OS X?
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LAN map for Mac OS X
I'm looking for a program that will create a visual map of my home network, I've found lanmap but it requires too many programs to be installed to be able to run.
Does anyone knows a native Mac app ...
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What does this bogus route (0&0x68 c8.c8.c8.c8…) mean in my routing table?
This is fresh after a reboot, on a wireless network which is known to be a little flaky. The first line is unlike anything I've seen before:
$ netstat -rn
Routing tables
Internet:
Destination ...
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How to preserve DHCP server settings when migrating from Lion Server to Mountain Lion Server?
I understand that DHCP server features will be "removed" from OS X Server with Mountain Lion and that there will be no way to manage these using the only remaining app for managing server features ...
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Given its IP, how can I find out the name of a Windows PC on my network?
I'd like to find out the computer name of a Windows PC (like the name shown in the 'Shares' section of the Finder, e.g. bill-pc) given only its IP address. nslookup doesn't do the trick.
I'm also ...
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Why is my host name wrong at the Terminal prompt when connected to a public WiFi network?
For three days straight, I have connected to the public WiFi network at my local library. Each day, I have seen a different prompt in Terminal. Here are some of the prompts I've seen:
zp-pc:~ ...
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iPad app to automatically download and view a list of web pages offline
I have a very specific workflow that I can't find a simple solution for.
I want to be able to make a list of web pages to read offline. Not articles, whole web pages. And I want to keep them ...
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Use the Airdrop network to access a computer?
I'm using airdrop to transfer files and stuff to another macbook. Looking at the output of ifconfig, I can see that airdrop creates a VNIC to communicate with the other computer.
Is there a way I ...
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How to trick Mozy into thinking network share is local USB disk?
Mozy does not support networked mounted drives, but does support USB drives. I don't want to disconnect a drive I have on my linux server just to do the mozy backups, so can anyone think of a way I ...
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Iphone 3G shows 'no service' eversince I came back from Malaysia
I'm using Iphone 3g for a year exactly and have no problems at all until recently I went to Malaysia. it says 'no service' where the carrier name supposed to be. so I assume its because since I'm out ...
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MacPro - Can the two network interfaces be assigned to?
Is it possible to control which applications/processes use which network card? So, for example, I could assign different things to different interfaces? Also, is this possible for the different types ...
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How can I restrict Mac sharing services to a specific network/adapter?
I want is to set up a Mac to connect to multiple networks. So far, so good. However, I only want to grant AFP access to users on ONE of the networks, but not the other. How can I accomplish this on ...
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How to get an iPad to switch automatically to the strongest network?
I work in an office that has 3 WiFi networks, the strength obviously depending on where you are in the building. All 3 networks have been set up on my iPad 3. I often move around in the office, but ...
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How to enable USB android tethering on OS X Mountain Lion without using Easy-Tether (Lite)
I can tether fine to Windows 7, but on my Mac OS X Mountain Lion, it does not recognize the USB network. I can install Easy-Tether (Lite) but that comes with some restrictions (e.g. no secure web ...
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Disable network drive unmounting
I've got a pretty specific need - to disable unmounting a network drive through the regular Finder eject function (accessed either by right-clicking the mounted drive on the desktop, or clicking the ...
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How would I prepend 127.0.0.1 as a nameserver all the time
I do web development and I would like to have dnsmasq running and handing my local dns requests. However I work in a lot of different networking scenarios and I need to DHCP updating my networking ...
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Unkown process listening at port 8080
The problem: something is listening on port 8080
If I load the page with Safari I get a blank page (page is white but "Develop → Show Page Source" is greyed out)
If I telnet to port 8080 I get ...
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Little snitch and different network profiles
Is there any way to have different "little snitch" rules set for different networking profiles ?
like for HOME one rule list
for WORK another etc ...
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Automatically Mount a Network Drive and Copy a File to a Network Folder (AppleScript)
I've a rather complex task to solve. I don't use OS X, but now I have to provide some colleagues with a simple application that automatically copies a certain file to a network folder. Normally I'd ...
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How can I use Terminal to monitor a network interfaces total traffic in Mb
I would like to use the terminal to monitor the network traffic on a given interface, with a view to providing alerts when certain cumulative totals have been exceeded.
The script needs to gain ...
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Only seeing ONE of two external HD's plugged into Apple Airport Extreme
Here is the scenario:
I have TWO External TB drives.
They are both plugged into a Powered USB Hub.
That Powered USB Hub is plugged into the back of my Airport Extreme.
I can only see one.
They have ...
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Google on my iOS devices is stuck in a different region than I live in
For some reason, my browser always defaults to New Zealand. I've reset my location in the Store and in the settings, but it always pulls up google.co.nz when doing a search and the default map centers ...
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How can I set up multihoming?
I am running Mac OS X Server 10.6 on my iMac and I am wondering how to multihome a Mac. I know it's possible to accomplish this by using both Wi-fi and Ethernet, but I just want to use Ethernet. Any ...
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Proxy settings won't be saved in the Keychain
On an Ethernet connection, when I manually set my proxy information, it won't save correctly in the keychain for HTTP web proxy. In the same environment, it does it correctly for HTTPS web proxy.
At ...
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How do I whitelist hosts when using 3G?
When I'm on the move I want to tether to my phone to access a few essentials (telnet, ssh, IM, a few low bandwidth websites). What I don't want is for a load of background processes like Software ...
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How to configure 802.1X without a configuration file?
After upgrading to Lion, all my 802.1X configurations are gone. There also does not seem to be a possibility to configure them via the system preferences:
It just tells me to get a configuration ...
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Is it possible to determine the model of an iOS device by its MAC address?
I'm starting to work on iOS apps at work, and I'm trying to determine the minimum version of iOS I'll need to support. We have a network registration system that gathers some basic information about ...
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What applications would be expected to setup a network interface “stf0” and “gif0”
I've recently noticed that I have the following network interfaces setup on my mac:
Ethernet
Airport
Firewire
vmnet1
vmnet8
gif0
stf0
Obviously Ethernet, Airport, and Firewire are enabled by ...
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Simplest way to audit and monitor my home network and deal with intruders (while leaving it all open)
Please don't give me a suggestion that you haven't tried and approved yourself. Also please feel free so skip and not read anything below. I trust the title is already summing up pretty good.
What ...
