Questions about configuring, troubleshooting or using connections that one device uses to talk to another.
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Wake on demand: can't access through internet
I'm using Wake on Demand (not WOL) to access my mac remotely. I can wake it from the sleep state only if I am on the same network using SSH, SFTP or HTTP. I have managed to connect from internet using ...
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AirPort Express: Extremely high latency
I just installed a new AirPort Express today, and connected a MacBook Air and an HP EliteBook to it.
While browsing the web feels, to use an unscientific term, sluggish, I could verify serious ...
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I can't access apple.com from my Macbook
For some reason I cannot access apple.com from my MacBook since last week. Was Lion at that time, so I thought updating to Mountain might help, but no luck. Also a full reset and back to original ...
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Internet connection problem wifi working fine but unable to ping anything?
I just came to a different country and suddenly I am having strange issues with my macbook air 2012's wifi. It seems to detect the wifi networks without issue but refuses to load any webpages or ...
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Wifi network not showing up
I have a weird problem, and internet isn't really helpful on that one.
I have a macbook pro and a wifi network. The macbook pro can see plenty of wifi network around, but very rarely mine.
The wifi ...
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Sharing Mac hard drive over the Internet to a PC
Similar question to this, but my other computer is a PC. (PC seeing external hard drive from the Mac over the Internet.)
My external is formatted exFAT. Neither the Mac nor the PC have issues using ...
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Print from iPad without AirPrint or Wi-Fi
Consider the following configuration
I have a Wi-Fi iPad without 3G support.
I also have an HP printer that doesn't not have Wi-Fi capabilities.
My printer supports USB.
I am planning to buy a 3G ...
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Connect to OSX via AFP over WAN with a Time Capsule on network?
I have a Time Capsule set up on my LAN to handle backups between my mom's computer and my computer.
Before we had the Time Capsule, I could connect remotely to a MacBook Pro that I set up as a server ...
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Aborted localhost http requests — how to troubleshoot?
I've got a webserver running on localhost (not the one built into OSX -- a different, proprietary webserver). I do most of my web app dev there, refreshing the browser to reload, etc. This has ...
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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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Why did I lose the ability to print to a networked printer?
I have a Canon iP3600 printer connected to a networked hard drive and up until a few days ago I was able to print from it. however, i have now lost the ability to print ever since i downloaded Apple's ...
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Why is the VPN switch sometimes missing from settings on my iPad?
There is a VPN switch in settings that often appears below the wifi option in settings on iOS:
(the above image is from a website and not my iPad, as I can't seem to get my iPad to show VPN right ...
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A Mac OS X VPN client that can import a .VPN file
I have a .vpn file that I use on Windows with Shew Soft VPN Client that has the connection details (excluding the username and password). Is there an equivalent client for Mac OS X that will allow me ...
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Internet connection no longer reliable after installing Mountain Lion
I installed Mountain Lion yesterday and find that when my 2 year old iMac comes back from sleep it finds the router and connection but fails to allow internet connection. In other words it indicates ...
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OSX Network: “could not save because write access was not granted”
We have a really basic network of Macs here in our studio. We keep all our files on a machine running Leopard server, but we're all on Lion.
The problem we're having is every single time we open a ...
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What, precisely, does “reset network settings” do on an iPhone?
I use "internet sharing" on my Mac, but lately I've been having trouble connecting my iPhone 5 to the resulting WiFi network. I've read advice online to do Settings -> General -> Reset -> ...
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location aware network drive mount?
At work we have a network drive (hosted on a windows server, mounted wirelessly via SMB) that is best if it is automounted.
The trouble is that this causes the system to pause when it tries to mount ...
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Ethernet Working but No Internet Connection
In my office, nearly everybody uses Mac and we have just only one Windows 7 system. Just this morning, all the Mac systems (10.8.2) could not connect to the internet but could connect to the network, ...
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Can't connect Mac to Mac via Finder over LAN
I'm having trouble getting one Mac on my home LAN to talk to another - let's call them Red and Blue. Red can't connect via Finder (under Shared) to Blue. But Red can open a Screen Sharing session to ...
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How to fix AFP where some users connect after 4 minutes and others never connect (spinning progress bar and no authentication dialog)?
I am having an issue for multiple (but not all) users whereby AFP connections are taking 4+ minutes to connect to the share. Some never connect. The spinning progress bar sits there but no auth window ...
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Traffic from an unknown process called Torque
I am seeing traffic from a process called torque at Library/Application Support/Torque.app/Contents/MacOS/Torque it is connecting to thousands of ip addresses.
After searching for a while all I can ...
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Lion Server DHCP randomly loses settings and reverts to defaults
I’ve been trying to set up Lion Server on a Mac Pro with it acting as the router/gateway/firewall/DNS/NAT and DHCP. I’ve been trying to setup an internal-only network named mycompany.something. After ...
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How should I use VPN on a Mac to prevent compromise before the VPN starts?
As most experienced users will have heard, using a Mac in a public untrusted Wi-Fi can be potentially harmful. A tool like Firesheep1 has made it very easy to intercept unencrypted communication.
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How to only route office traffic over the VPN while having default route for other traffic?
I have a VPN to my office and would like to route only office traffic over the VPN while maintaining my default route for other traffic.
I have attempted the following:
sudo route delete default
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Same iTunes Library between networked Mac and PC
I have a home network that contains computers with both Macs and PCs. I'd like to use the same iTunes library on all of the machines, so I moved the library folder and all of the media to a network ...
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Wireless Networking and why won't my iPhone 4 recognize or scan for any networks since new install by cable company
My iPhone 4 keeps saying, "can't scan for wireless network" and I've just installed a new home wireless network! Why won't my iPhone recognize this new wi-fi or scan for any network now?
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Is there a network usage utility that shows data usage by network connection
I use my Mountain Lion MacBook Air to connect to the internet using various methods. At home, I use my wired connection, which does not have a cap. Sometimes though, I connect via my iPad, which uses ...
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How to fix when I can nslookup and dig an internal hostname, but I cannot ping or ssh to the internal machine?
I can nslookup and dig an internal hostname, and I get a rapid response, but I cannot ping or ssh to the server. All external hostnames work fine for both ping, ssh, dig or nslookup.
ssh -vvv ...
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Networking an external hard drive
I want to buy a Seagate Backup Plus Desktop 4TB Thunderbolt drive, but I was wondering if it is possible to connect my external hard drive to a network. There are two options which might help:
we ...
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How do I prevent OS X Server from issuing dynamic DHCP leases?
Prior to "upgrading" to Mountain Lion Server, I used OS X Server as my DHCP server. The purpose of the configuration I had was to provide MAC filtering, assigning static leases based on hardware MAC ...
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DLNA via bridged interfaces - OS X
Setup is as follows:
Primary network is via en0 (192.168.1.0/24)
Secondary network is via en1 and contains a DLNA server (192.168.2.0/24). This is 'private' network containing only en1 and the DLNA ...
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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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Possible to use OSX's built-in Cisco IPSec VPN on a custom port?
From my googling and personal experience, I've determined that OSX's IPSec is extremely hard to get working for some people. It turns out I'm one of those people.
Using what I believe are the correct ...
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Why does the same computer appear multiple times on the network?
As can be seen below, the same computer shows up several times when I go to browse network. It only happens with this single laptop.
What causes this?
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How to stop cifs volumes disconnecting
At work my Mac Pro (Mountain Lion 10.8.3) connects to several network shares (on a SAN which I use my AD credentials to authenticate to). I connect using cifs by going to the "Connect to server" ...
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Internet through Office Network Not Working on My Macbook Pro [closed]
Good afternoon (well it is here in Saudi Arabia),
I read the answer to the response "I cannot connect to internet but my MacBook Pro detects the network and my HP computer works fine on the same ...
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How to define the VPN PPTP port in OSX Lion?
Is there any change to set the port to use when connecting to a PPTP VPN from a Mac?
I configured a VPN at home from Server 2008 so I can access my home server and use ports like RDP, VNC, IMAPS ...
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Should I block incoming connections from “netbiosd”?
My (application) firewall settings are configured to block incoming connections from netbiosd. I don't recall setting this myself, and wonder what the consequences are.
What are the consequences of ...
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How to set up encrypted Time Machine backups to a remote drive?
I have an external drive which I used to do encrypted TM backups to, via a direct USB connection (i.e. the entire drive became encrypted - Lion).
I would like to switch to wireless backups but ...
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Apple Remote Desktop multiple ports on one address / ip
I am using Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) version 3.5.1 and I want to add computers to the list. I have several virtual machines running on an VMWare ESXi host. VMWare enables screen sharing via VNC but ...
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VPN+Proxy: How to override main network settings
I can establish a connection to my university VPN (Cisco IPSec). In addition I have to set a proxy, in this case I have the URL of a .pac file.
When I set this in the VPN-settings, the proxy is not ...
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OS X 10.7 add multiple windows workgroups
I have multiple Windows Workgroups on my network, Does 10.7 have the ability to add more than one Workgroup at a time?
I open up System Preferences -> Network -> Advanced -> WINS (Tab) -> Workgroup
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How can I remedy a multiple AirPort network where each base station tends to end up isolated from the rest?
I live in a wide house, so I have an Airport extreme, an Airport express and a TimeCapsule setting up a free roaming network.
I used to have the Airport Express working as a master central router for ...
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Machine name set to new-host-X instead of the name set in Preferences
My machine name is set shiny in System Preferences/Sharing/Computer Name.
From another machine on the network, I can only use shiny.local to refer to this machine. In the past, I used only shiny.
In ...
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Why does PF stop ipfw from forwarding in Mountain Lion?
Disclaimer: I know, ipfw is now deprecated. However, as I'm yet to find a functional way of forwarding packets using PF, I would like to keep using ipfw.
What I'm trying to do is forward all my ...
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Why does my wifi internet access fail shortly after connecting to a LAN without internet access?
I have a working wireless connection to an access point with an internet connection (where my IP is 172.17.30.137). Over this wireless connection I am able to ping internet addresses (e.g. 4.2.2.1) as ...
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How do I delete other available networks from network scan list?
My Macbook Pro (v10.6.8) is constantly automatically connecting to a neighbor's wifi - event though I've never connected to that network, and I have my own Wifi connection prioritized. The system is ...
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FTP: active vs. passive, command line vs. browser
Here's a weird one for everyone. I'll use AskDifferent because my test bed is on a Mac, but I don't know that the underlying issue is specifically Mac.
My Mac is behind a NAT wall. Let's call my ...
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Cannot Save/Edit to Mac Share Using Mountain Lion
The problem: Under Mountain Lion (10.8.3) I cannot create new files or save changes to a particular share, which is running Lion (10.7).
I can connect to the shared Mac on my local network (in a ...
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Internet Sharing on Mountain Lion not working
I am trying to share an ethernet connection on a MacBook over Wi-Fi. I enabled Internet Sharing in the Sharing prefpane,
When I try to connect using an iPad, the iPad can see the network but cannot ...
