On 1/27/2014 7:36 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 1/27/14, 7:14 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 1/27/2014 6:48 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 1/27/14, 1:07 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 14:50:30 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:
On 1/26/14, 11:58 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 10:09:34 -0500, "F.O.A.D."
wrote:
### SYSTEM INFORMATION ###
Report Timestamp : January 26, 2014 10:05:17 AM
EST
Report Timestamp (ISO 8601 format) : 2014-01-26T10:05:17
Computer Name : Harry’s MacBook Air
Host Name : harrys-macbook-air.local
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Yes, as many as desired, but none of them say, "Harry's MacBook
Air", or have any other reference to
'Harry'.
My task of the moment is getting my wife's Windoze computer to have
our
server show up as a shared device or device, like it does on our macs.
So far I haven't figured out which rosetta stone I need to do this.
I always wondered how well Apple acted on a network with Windoze
machines.
I just plug them in and they go here.
As I stated, the Apple machines have no problems finding and displaying
the network and what is attached to the network, which, by the way is
not running on the Apple or Windoze OS. It's the Windoze machine that
was the minor pain to get onto the network.
I think Windows has more privacy options for network sharing than the
Apple OS. With Apple it seems to be "on" or "off". Windows has
several options to choose from and set.
Perhaps it is too fine a point, but I wasn't trying to "share" anything
on the Windoze computer. I was trying to access a directory on the
server, which is not running Windoze or the Mac OS. I already had the
Windoze machine "sharing" its data on the server via Windoze 7 backup
software. I figured it out, finally, but it was obtuse. It doesn't help
that neither Apple nor Microsoft give you any real printed reference
materials with their operating systems. Almost everything is "on-line,"
and sometimes not easy to find.
Ah, I understand. I had problems just trying to get the iMac and
Windows machines to talk to each other via the home network.
One thing I've noticed (and don't understand) is why software updates
released by Apple take so long to install. It's not machine related
.... seems to be on both my Vista and iMac. For example, iTunes recently
had an update. It was a fairly large file but downloaded in a
reasonable period of time to both machines. But when it went to
install, it took longer than the download did, again on both machines.
At first I thought something screwed up and was about to cancel the
install but then the bar starting moving again.