I know there are some folks here that know lots more that me about all this, but since I started down this road, I'm going to finish it up. Guys, don't hesitate to tell me if I give wrong advice.
On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 03:12 PM, Jim Eddy wrote: > Kyle and John, > Thanks for your help here. I've downloaded the utility John mentioned > and will try it as soon as I get home tonight. > In the network pane, cisco has added a new choice of network port they > call "Ethernet Adapter (en1)". It has the same choices as the > "Ethernet" port but no others. Yep, that's all there is. > > Should my network connections through the card just "be there?" No > connections to make? If everything is installed properly, you should be connected to the base station (not the internet) as soon as you power up you mac. you did install the cisco driver, right? If you installed the new one, there is icon in your menu bar. pull down the menu and you should be able to open the cisco utility which will tell you whether it's associated with a base station. The only other thing you have to set is the base station itself using the airport admin utility, which is where you set up the number the modem (in the base station) dials out etc, Under the internet tab, you can set whether you have manual or automatic connections. If you do not check the automatic dial then you will have to run the software I told you about in order for the base station to dial out. > How do I share files with other computers on the > network Well you need to go into your system preferences and select the sharing icon and check the check box for file sharing. That will allow others to log into this computer. Of course you'll need to do the same thing for any other computers you want to log into. While you're there, if you're using a USB printer, go down and check the box for sharing usb printers (or check it on the computer that the usb printer is hooked to.) Also look up above and check out the name of the computer. This is the name that will appear when you try to network to this computer. For example I named my wallstreet, Blackbird. With file sharing enabled, if you go to one of the other computers and while you're in the finder, pull down the GO menu and select connect to at the bottom. The computer you just named will pop up and you can log in. Bear in mind though that how you log in will determine what files you can access. > or share the printer on the iMac? Depends on the printer you have. If you have a usb printer, then what we did in the file sharing preference will take care of of setting it up for sharing, although you need to get the printer driver activated for every computer that you want to use this printer. Go to print center (Applications>Utilites>Print Center). Launch it and add the printer. Incidentally, on older (slower) computers like my Wallstreet, I like to add the print center to the applications that launch at start up. You do that again in the system preferences. In the top row is login items. Click the add button, navigate to the print center and choose it. you can check the box so that it's hidden. In my experence, if you don't do that, when you print a document it takes three or four bounces to launch print center before a document prints. Just speed things up. There is one other thing you might need to do depending on the printer. If it's an appletalk network printer, like most apple laser printers or my hewlett packard 6MP printer (essentially most postscript network printers), you have to activate appletalk. Again it's in the system preferences, under the network items, choose the appletalk tab then check the box to turn appletalk on. > Incidentally, I have a dedicated line for the modem (but DSL isn't an > option, and cable is flakey here). What I want to enable is internet > sharing so someone besides my daughter can be on the internet every so > often. Father of 3 daughters. Nuff said > > It may be some configuration problem I don't recognize yet. Wireless is > very new to me. I'm trying to not use encryption until I can actually > make the network work, then bring in encryption and firewalls as I > learn how. Well, when you're in the airport admin utility, when you select the network tab and then check the box to distribute addresses and then the radio button for dhcp and nat, you have activated the firewall in the base station. so if you use dhcp, you already have the firewall. Incidentally, by checking the DHCP radio button in the base station, that's the base station side of the dhcp you selected in the network pane for the cisco card. You know, the "Ethernet Adapter (en1)". That's what makes the connection automatic. Oh, and when you make all these changes, for the airport admin utility, click update at the bottom and for the system preferences, select apply now at the bottom, so all the changes take effect. I'm not so excited about encryption or password login. Guess it depends on where you live. I'm out in the boonies. If you live in a highrise, or in an area where someone might glob onto you connection outside your house, that'd be an entirely different situation. Good luck! > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > -- > Jim Eddy James Eddy John Slavin Kirksville, MO [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 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