Mac Forum / General / Networking / September 2004

Will this work for me?
                               /---> hardwired to PC
DSL MODEM|--> 4-port Router|---+----> hardwired to Mac
                               \---> Wireless box ===> Laptop

Hi all,
We're about to roll out Active Directory authentication
scheme at the University where I work, and I've come across
a problem.

In PC, what are COM ports?They are serial com ports, right? In my
computer, I find  4 ports: COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4. But I only see two
serial ports: (RS232). Where the other ports?
Modem seems using COM3. Modem is a PCI card. I feel confused why is

Hi group,
This is the first time of me in this group. My name is Daniele and i'm a
small indipendent programmer. At this time I'm a student of Computer
Science in Rome (La Sapienza). I would to make a new cocoa-based

I need a terminal emulator using the modem for a serial connection.
dataComet will do this (I tried the demo), but I simply cannot justify
shelling out 60 bucks for it. I have several Classic terminal programs
incl. the commercial VersaTerm but it seems that Classic does not let

I have a couple different locations (Mac OS X 10.3.5, locations meaning
entries in the Apple -> Location menu), each different wireless
networks.  The problem is that often, when I switch from one to the
other, the network isn't automatically picked up.  I have each location

In a previous thread regarding VPN, ssh tunneling and secure
videoconferencing, Tacit wrote:

Here's the problem.....
I have a number of bookmarks in the bookmarks bar, most of which are further
subdivided into folders within which are the "pointers" to websites. It is
easy to arrange those pointers by dragging and dropping, but the same is not

I've got a 2.5 GB file on a MacOS 9 machine and I want to copy it to a
MacOS 10 machine. I tried mounting one machine's disk on the other,
but I cannot copy files larger than 2GB that way. What else can I try?
Mark Geary

Modem jsut quit. Phone line OK, get dial tone.
When I try to connect, no dial tone heard, no dialing tones.
Error dialog says "A modem error occurred."  In the past, when phone line was
bad, etc., error was "Can't detect dial tone" (or such wording).

Good morning,
In a couple of previous threads, I've asked about possibilities for
encrypting the audio and/or video portion of videoconferences. I sort of
struck out, except for Skype, which offers an encrypted audio and text

Dear Y'all -
Has anybody got WDS working?  I've got a Airport Extreme hanging off
of my home LAN and two Airport Expresses.  Music works fine, but I
can't get anything (including music) to work if I try to enable the

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I'll start off by owning up to the fact that I know very little about
macs. I deal almost exclusively with PCs (win and linux). So please bear
with me.
We're trying to get an iMac (running OS 9.2) to access a W2000 shared

Anyone using the Cisco VPN client for OSX? Our school just got its
wireless network up and running. It needs the Cisco client to connect.
I can connect, but after disconnecting (either manually or through my
iBook's going to sleep), I can't re-connect without a reboot or user