Mac Forum / General / Networking / April 2005

Thanks to all those who tried to assist me with this issue in a
previous thread.
On two different occasions, two different people at my dialup ISP's
tech support department insisted that the ISP's server does not block

I am having a multitude of problems with RDC for Mac (from Microsoft).
1st, it took a long time of playing with settings and rebooting
(praying), just to get my G4 Powerbook to connect using the ip address
of the PC (192.168.0.xx) - both my G4 and the PC are on the local

Howdy folks
I'ld like to use my Imac G5 to burn CD's or DVD's that I can use on my
old 8 bit Atari.  I've done it on a PC with CDrecord.  Is there some
kinda Mac software that can burn a disk using whatever non-standard disk

Good morning,
I suppose this is a newbie question, even though I'm not really a newbie.
Just a moron, I suspect. Be merciful! Please, oh wise ones, indulge my
ignorance and toss me a clue.

After I installed the 10.3.9 Java update I can no longer access the card
file at my local library. Whatever browser I try the result is the same.
With 10.3.8 It worked flawlessly. Anyone else have this problem?

When I read an article it receives the "read" checkmark. When I come
back to the group the next day, all the "read" checkmarks are gone. What
do I do to retain the read checkmarks from day to day?
Thanks in advance...

Howdy folks
I boought my Imac G5 a month ago and can use the internet from my home
since wednesday.  When I'm using Safari to access a site, I often have
to start downloading an internetpage a couple of time before Safari can

I am currently running the original (now pretty old) firmware I got
with my Linksys BEFSR41 ver.2 4 Port Router -- v.1.42.7  (April 2002)
I've never had a problem with this router and everything is running
fine, so I'm a little leery of messing around with a steup that

I have two mailboxes setup in Apple's Mail program. One is my .Mac mail
the other is my office mail on an Exchange server to which I'm
connected via the Cisco VPN client.
Mail is set to check my mail every 30 minutes, which it is doing for

Have recently upgraded from 10.2.8 to 10.3.8 on a G4 Quicksilver on
dial-up.
On 10.2.8 there was never a problem connecting. But now am getting
messages " A modem error occurred. Please verify your settings and try

I am looking for a Telnet capable terminal program for the Macintosh.   I
have played around with Telnet and Better Telnet clients but do not find
them to my liking.   I would prefer something similar to Zterm but supports
telnet connectivity.

I'm getting half a dozen spams a day selling pharmaceuticals of various
sorts and Eudora 6.2 will not recognize them as junk. In addition to the
random word strings that spammers put into emails, in these particular
ones the body contents always contain exactly the same ...

I've just set up a new ActionTec DSL modem+Wireless router using only
the MAC authentication (deny all except for the list) security only.
Is this sufficient, or is it easy to figure out and spoof a MAC address?
The reason I turned off WEP, btw, is that one of my computers (an ...

I have no problem setting up the client side firewall to allow Apple
Remote Desktop through. I can connect to it just fine from one location.
But when I try to access the same Apple Remote Desktop client from
another location (but using the same machine), where I am behind a NAT

I'll readily admit to not being an expert in the nuances of wireless
connections, so I'm posting here hoping for a solution.....
We have two Macs, an AlBook and a TiBook, both of which connect to the
internet via an Airport / Linksys setup. The internal drive of the TiBook has