Mac Forum / General / Networking / September 2007

I'm setting up a VNC connection over the Internet and I'm considering
different options for how to make the connection securely. For the VNC
server, I'm just using the built in Remote Desktop server that comes
with OSX Tiger.

I have port forwarding set up on my router to allow me to login to my
Mac from work.  When I came home from a vacation, I discovered that my
router had assigned the address that usually goes to my Mac to another
device.

Hi,
I have a Mac OS X Server 10.4.9 with open directory and active
directory. Mac Os clients can log on to the Open directory domain, no
problem there, but win XP clients cannot log on to the Active Directory

I've been doing video iChat with someone who has cable internet service.
The performance has been quite good, with fairly smooth video and not
much distortion or stuttering. The other party is thinking of switching
to DSL. Does anyone have any experience with the performance of ...

Is it possible to get attachments to show up in the header of an email
instead of the body of the email in mac mail. Operating system is OS
X.
Thanks for any insight.

I got my Airport Express today. I plugged my DSL cable into the Airport
Express. I got all green lights.
I installed the software from the CD.
I ran Airport Setup Assistant. It said I'm connected to the network.

Two questions:
1) Is it possible to remotely run OSX applications (I have two in mind)
from an XP machine connected over the Internet?
2) How difficult is it to do this?

My internet service provider, in order to "add services" to its e-mail
system, has decided to contract its services to gmail in order to
"increase service offerings".
Using this system, the e-mail address becomes <username>@<domain-name>.net

I have an iBook G4 with an Airport Extreme card. I am connected to the
Internet
through AT&T DSL. I have the standard connection of cable to DSL modem and
then cable to my computer.

Hi I'm looking for a port knocking client for os x 10.4x.
I already know about Darwinports and fwknop but I am looking for a
client to knock for access using a traditional port knocker like Knock
for windows (if anyone has heard of that). Thanks

What's the most reliable broadband speedtest around?

Can a Power MAC (dual 1.3 GHz) be connected to a MAC Pro (quad 2.0
GHz)
via eSATA.  We need to routinely transfer 100 giga byte, yes 100GB
files.

I have an airport extreme which i connect to with my macbook.
Everything works fine except when I wake my computer from sleep. It
always attempts to connect to my neighbor's connection, instead of
mine, even when I'm in the same room as the airport. I've since taken

I have had much trouble with Cisco's VPN client. It often does not
connect.
I am using the better user interface for it,
http://www.nexumoja.org/projects/Shimo/. Its developer has been