Mac Forum / General / Networking / November 2005

I've set up postgresql on my laptop. Although I used the netinfo
approach of creating a user, and copied from a daemon user too, it is
still offering to let me login as postgres when I reboot the machine.
How can I get rid of the postgres user from the list of logins?

And vice versa?

i'm living in an apartment that has had dsl for a while. my roommates
use a normal router off the dsl hookup that gives internet access to
all three of us in our individual rooms. i want to have wireless in the
apartment but they don't want to give up their non-wireless

Ok, here is the puzzle:
Start with a g3 iBook with probably Panther, loaned to some foreigners
visiting NYC for a few months, so they would not have to go to internet
cafes all the time. They take it home and connect it to their DSL modem

My G3 has been on comcast for 3 weeks now
working fine.
I decided to add 256 of RAm tonite.
After installing the ram (which worked fine)

I have an Apple ibook G4 1GHz with 256MB. I try to run an educational
software program, which states requirement of Mac system 7.5.3 or
higher, 32mb ram, 15 mb available on hard drive, 4x cd-rom
drive,256-color. However, the software was not running and the pop-up

I have an older discontinued D-link wireless router (802.11b). Is there
any point speed-wise in replacing this with a newer model, with 802.11g
technology, when my Internet connection is 4.5 Mbps?
Should I replace the router (which works fine range-wise) only if and

Hello...
I have two purple iMacs (G3), one is mine on System 9 and the other is
my parents on System 9.2.
I need to upgrade to System X for both (eventually). I have the original

Welcome to a work in progress!
After a year filled will excitement - and after over two years of
planning - I have been hard at work bringing The Mac Orchard
(<http://www.macorchard.com/>) into its 4th generation to serve all of

Greetings from Norway!
I've just purchased the Linksys WRT54GX router but I've run into
problems configuring it. The problem is the setup web page that I get
when I connect with Netscape 7.2 for Mac OS X looks nothing like the

Hi, We'll probably get broadband in about a week. Modem coming in post
they say. I'm not sure how to get the network to have access. Current
set-up is iMac G4 17" serving an eMac and an old iMac and a an even
older 7200 via DHCP. No problem because its a normal phone line

Sometimes, Safari asks for my login keychain password.
What's that all about?

When I bring my Powerbook G4 (with original Airport card) to my college
campus, I run into major connectivity problems. The library has
multiple wireless access points, all with the same name. The idea is
that you'll connect to whichever signal is strongest at any given

I have a student who has been using PCs and now we are switching to
MACs. She has been unable to find the kind of screen enlarging software
that she used with Windows. Is there a MAC equivalent?

I get a message on my new G5 iMac, running 10.4.3 that it wants a
keychain password.  I have never set up such a password.  I cannot find
any way to change the password.  Anyone have any ideas.  This is my
first Mac since System 7.