Mac Forum / General / Networking / September 2004

I have enabled a user account on a OS X (10.2.8) machine for login from
Windoze file sharing. This does work as advertised.
I was surprised to find that none of the normal system utilities have
the ability to display the connection status of users that are remotely

I want to do something I believe is fairly simple to the initiated, but
since I'm a total network zero, I need your help - or some pointers where
I can read up on the relevant info.
Here's the setup:

Since I got my August 2002 eMac during its initial month, I connected to
the Internet with dial-up using the same settings as my previous
computer.  A few months ago, I bought an AirPort Base station (white
color, with built-in modem).  I could connect with the AirPort using a

I am on iMac system 9.0.3. (bubble mac) 64MB RAM.
Use (Surfboard S85100) Motorola cable high speed modem. Just replaced.
I can be online for a few minutes... and then the connection simply
freezes out. I try several programs but any internet connection is gone.

I have a appletalk LAN with 4 iMAC computer that shares their HDs. Now
I have bought a ADSL router with 4 slots ad 4 static IPs. 3 ports will
be for 3 PCs that I want to connect to internet. The remaining port
will be for let a particular iMAC computer (called Genesi): this host

When the modem in my PowerBook dials, you hear the dial tone and DTMF tones.
Is it possible to record phone conversations by utilizing this "off hook"
mode of the modem while talking on the phone?
Maybe software exists to use modem as input device such that the many

We have Mac OS X Server 10.3.5 and a Directory Domain set. We are able
to make the Mac OS X clients/users pull their Home Directories from
the server. However, for some reason the Mac OS X clients keep loosing
their access to their Home Directories in many occations and they get

Sorry if already asked and answered.
Plus, I 'm pretty sure the answer is not what I want to hear, but, what
the hey!?
If an internet audio stream is Real only (e.g. MLB games), is there any

I'm looking for and inexpensive way to watch TV on a FP iMac.
I know about Elgato, anybody else make devices to take component video
or s-video and audio or cable TV to Firewire?
I have an old, small VCR to use to receive signal from cable, but I need

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 of problems experienced by early upgraders. Looking for wireless

What is the "normal" range one should expect from an Airport Extreme
Base Station (no external antenna) connecting to an PB G4 Al?
If I go down one floor in our house (wood frame construction), my
internet speed drops considerably but I'm only about 50-60 feet away. Is

Just wondering how to improve my network performance.  Currently I have
10 to 12 devices connected to my network.  My devices are comprised of B
only devices and devices capabile of b or g.  My WDS system is comprised
of 2 Airport Exterem Basestations. I beleive I read somewhere ...

I posted this on comp.sys.mac.apps last night. I meant to cross post
here, but misspelled the name of this NG. So this is a repeat of the
same message, same subject, from .apps.
In a previous thread, I asked about secure videoconferencing, with

I've got the last version of Thoth installed and running under Panther.
Supposedly, sorting by subject should result in cananical sorting....
"Sorting by subject does just that, threads are sorted by the canonical
(ignoring Re:, etc.) subject of the thread."

Is ther ea web site or list of known-active file share servers that
can be used with programs such as LimeWire, SoulSeek, and 2-Get?
It appears that some of these programs come pre-programmed with
servers but after a time these simply depart the network never to be