networking

what is the best way to mask my ip address. I have heard of web proxies and various software options but have no idea how best to proceed. I want to lower my internet profile as much as possible

What is the purpose of the netstat remote address: " localhost.http syn_sent " ? Any help is always appreciated.

Hello, I have recently absorbed a lab of linux thin-clients and the users of this lab would like it to be transformed into a Mac lab. So with that, I have been spending the past few days brainstorming how the lab will be set up... In an ideal world, I would like my lab users to be able to...

Hello, I am using dnsmasq locally and I have put my primary DNS to be 127.0.0.1 However, I have only a few addresses to be resolved by dnsmasq and I don't want to run a complete DNS cache server on my system. Because it is a laptop and I am using it over various wifi networks, I need the...

Hey all... I'm a novice to networking, so I apologize if some of my questions seem very basic. Here is the senerio: I have two MBP's (1 very old 15" intel and 1 very new 13") and an iPhone 4s I want to use my old MBP as a music server. I have a huge eSata drive hooked up to it via...

Hi there, The title says it all. SSH'ing to the server with putty on Windows works fine but when I try to login from the terminal, I got two problems. First, a new window pops-up and asks to enter the SSH key's password. I enter it and then the window pops-up again. Then, I get the following...

Hey guys.. So, I've been trying to download some mp3s for a day now and every time I try to download one of them it just gives me an "interrupted" error. I decided to try on my Android phone, and the same **** keeps happening. What's wrong? Posting a screenshot of said error...

OK....I have recently converted from PC to Mac. Got a MacBook Air and really like it (still getting used to some commands). The old Cisco router did not seem happy with the switch, but it was time to upgrade anyway, so now have the Airport Extreme. Have connected three Mac's, 3 iPads, and an...

We run Macs on our Windows domain and I am trying to get the correct format to be able to email a URL type link to a file on the windows server so that the user can just click the link and the document opens in Word or Excel on the Mac. I have tried the following...

Hi! We have different computers connected to a router. I want to control the data usage on each computer. I am the admin of the router off course. I saw that there are different software for Windows.. but i couldnt find anything for (snow)Leopard Thanx for your help guys!

I've been interested in trying to remotely access computers lately but I'm having a lot of trying finding out how to do it. At home we he have 3 computers, a Mac which I believe runs Tiger, a PC running Windows 7 and my Macbook Air running Snow Leopard. I understand the process of it and parts...

I created a VPN but i dunno how to get an address for my mac VPN i created from my prefrences. Please help :D

I have a situation at my workplace where using the the corporate network via ethernet prevents me from using Spotify for example. I do have an option to use a wifi network that bypasses the corporate firewall, thus enabling Spotify and other blocked services. Unfortunately this keeps me from...

I have a little network behind a Linksys router, which serves up DHCP and forwards lookups to the OpenDNS servers and uses my DynDNS domain name. Let's say the domain is myplace.homeip.net. I am on machine ABC, running 10.7.3, and another node is XYZ, running 10.5.8. If I enter $ ping...

Hello, I have one mac os x server 10.6 running a VPN with two ethernet cards; one private and one public, being this one as default gateway on netstat. When I connect trough the vpn not using "Send all traffic over VPN connection" i can access my lan (on the office with has vpn) and reach the...

Have Canon Pixma iP4300 printer I purchased in U.S. After much research I've discovered I must change the country setting from U.S. to Canada or Australia in order to print directly onto a CD or DVD. I do have the correct tray! How do I change the country setting? Any help or suggestions...

Ever since my house switched to Time-Warner cable internet, I've been having trouble. For example, at: http://www.ebay.com/sch/Media-/80073/i.html many of the images are just little question marks (safari couldn't load them.) Also sometimes pages never load, it just sits and spins...

I have all file shearing set and ready to go on my 8100/80 PPC Mac OS 9.1, and I can ping it from my MacBook Pro Mac OS X 10.7.3, but I can not map any drive through "Connect to Server..." command!:confused: Any solution, please. TIA

Hi, I got my ethernet connected to service provider A. And my wifi is connected to service provider B. Now, if I create a virtual machine using parallels, I can mention to parallels what network to use for itself (say A), and can configure the host mac os to use different network (say...

A customer was using Windows and we've switched them to Macs. All perfect. But! There seems to be no way of preventing two machines from accessing the same file at the same time. In Windows, Excel would say "this file is already opened on another machine" or something to that effect. The Macs...