Mac Forum / General / Networking / December 2005

I have a iMac G5 (OS X 10.4.3) and a PC (windows XP). We share an
internet connection by wi-fi: the Mac uses the in-built Airport and the
PC an USB dongle.
is-it possible to built a network with the 2 machines, independantly

I have a wireless network running from an Airport Extreme base
station.  It was set up and is working fine on a power mac.  Modem
is DLink DSL-300T.
I am now trying to add a Packard Bell laptop (equipped with AC97

Since going wireless with 2 Airport Extreme Base Stations, we've had
problems where we will lose network connection (can't find our network
via default connecting or manually) for anywhere from 15 minutes to over
an hour. Then it will show up again and we can connect and will ...

I've got a server machine running Debian, and my home directory is
shared in /etc/exports like so:
/home/inkedmn   192.168.1.105(rw,insecure,no_root_squash)  # this is
the IP for the mac

Total novice here. I did a test page in Word. Saved in HTML. Opened up
Fetch, connected with my new (and totally under construction) web site.
Now what do I do. I tried intuitvely, clicking the page, hitting put
(upload in Cyberduck). My web page doesn't change. Obviously I need

Total novice here. I did a test page in Word. Saved in HTML. Opened up
Fetch, connected with my new (and totally under construction) web site.
Now what do I do. I tried intuitvely, clicking the page, hitting put
(upload in Cyberduck). My web page doesn't change. Obviously I need

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Riiiiiight. I finally decided to go wireless...?I've got a PC in my
lounge and a iBook in my room which is two floors up, I have a
Ethernet cable up to my room but I dont want to stay just on my desk
with the laptop, i want to be able to walk around the house with the

I am at wits end here.  I'm having trouble with my G4 667 powerbook
connecting to my linksys base station.  It worked fine a month ago, and
then it stopped working in a very strange way.  Any thoughts, ideas or
help would be appreciated.

I got given an iMac with OS9 on it but the person left a password on
the tcp/ip settings to get admin options as such I cannot change those
settings, is there a way around this?
thankyou

other than watching the activity lights in the base station?

I gave a family member my old G3 tower.  It has OS9.04, or whatever the
last version of 9 was.  Unfortunately, the recipient wants to access
the web via dialup so they can keep their AOL account.  I haven't done
dialup in a long time, and can't remember how this was set up on an OS9

anyone know how to switch off the contextual menus in Firefox?
They pop up all the time if one waits more than half-a-second before
making the mouse choice. A great nuisance and time-waster.
TIA,

I'm on a mostly Windows network, and trying to convince everyone that
my Mac works just as well as their PCs.
Problem:
Our mail server is an Microsoft Exchange server, and I have my Apple