How do I connect my mac book, which has windows xp on it, to the internet wireless?

Posted by Alicja on April 29th, 2010
Uber Loser asked:


I just did the boot camp thing, and the Windows XP side of the Mac book won’t connect to the internet! I have a wireless router, and the Mac side of my Mac book gets internet perfectly fine. Please give me step-by-step instructions of how to get my Windows XP onto the internet. Thanks for your time.

How do I hook up a Linux computer to the internet using an XP host?

Posted by Alicja on March 17th, 2010

Lestat de Lioncourt asked:


I am running Fedora Core 5 on my laptop and I have Windows XP Media Center on my desktop which is connected to the internet via LAN. I want to know how I can connect to the internet from my laptop using my desktop’s net connection. I already have all the physical connections set up (network adapters and cable) and I’m already using my network for file sharing. Please don’t offer any suggestions on using Linux as host (I already know how much safer it is). I want help on dealing with situation as it.

Incidentally, I’m also facing trouble using ICS from my XP partition on the laptop. It used to work flawlessly before, but I think after I installed Fedora it stopped working (although file and printer sharing areOK). I ran the ICS wizard again on each comp, but it didn’t work. Any suggestions on what might cause that?

How can I connect Windows media player 11 to my HD TV. I have a digital media receiver in the home network?

Posted by Alicja on January 11th, 2010
John asked:


I have a deigial media receiver (wireless) connected to home wireless network and the HDTV. I am able to share media files to it and watch videos on HDTV that are stored in my PC’s hard disk without the help of Windows media player 11. I want to watch internet streaming media thru the windows media player 11. But my media receiver does not detect window media player 11. Need help here. Anybody please help.

How to set up a mac computer network for an arts department at an elementary school?

Posted by Alicja on December 19th, 2009
τεκνον θεου asked:


I would like to set up a computer lab of 8-10 mac computers that will serve approximately 180 students. Each student will maintain (with help, obviously) a portfolio of work done in art and music class. Therefore, I would like each student to have her own login ID and folder. Since the files will be audio and pictures, storage needs are high.

I will administer the network. I have mac experience, but I am not a sysadmin by any means. I can learn quickly and I am tech savvy, but I hold no illusions of becoming a Unix guru during this school year. The school will be able to get support for installation but I will need to run the thing myself.

Any ideas for hardware/software configurations are welcome. The workstations will likely be mac minis, other than that budget is not a huge issue.

How do you make a computer running Ubuntu Linux show up on a network of Widows computers?

Posted by Alicja on December 11th, 2009
aido2002 asked:


I set up an old laptop with Ubuntu Linux with the intention of making it a print server. I hooked up a printer to it, and set it to share all printers, yet when I go onto my Windows computers, neither it, nor the printer attached to it, show up. What should I do to make it successfully work as a print server?

How to get WindowsXP to see a shared linux folder?

Posted by Alicja on December 6th, 2009
Recently installed Debian and completely new to linux. Installed Samba package and selected the shared folder. On my windows machine, I can see the linux box but not a folder or drive under it. The folder is shared under linux with SMB (also tried NFS). The Windows machine has TCP/IP, IPX/SPX and Netbios protocols. When I bring up the add network place window, I can see the box but no folder/drive. When I right click to add it, I get a login window but no login I type in works. Tried the root and user I set up with installation.

Need help with this but also could someone recommend a complete noob guide to linux? All the sites I’ve read are not easy for complete beginers.

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How do I get Linux to connect to the Internet?

Posted by Alicja on November 28th, 2009

Okay, this is not the first time I have had this problem. I decided to install OpenSuse 11.0 on top of Windows dual boot, and the Linux OS won’t connect to the Internet but Windows will. Any ideas?Submited by:TestTubeBaby

What is the download speed that I can expect when I connect from India to US using a 512kbps line?

Posted by Alicja on November 27th, 2009
Suresh asked:


We are trying to connect to a server located in the US from our India offices. We have a 512kbps line and we find that there is a latency of about 350ms. When I try to download a file, it takes a lot of time (About 6 hours for downloading a 1GB file). Is this reasonable? How can I calculate the expected download speed, given latency and the bandwidth? Is there any formula to calculate the download speed? Are latency and bandwidth the only factors involved?

How to enable remote shutdown a computer running Windows Vista Home Premium?

Posted by Alicja on November 17th, 2009
Jeremy asked:


I am trying to shutdown a computer running Windows Vista Home Premium from Windows XP Professional. I have admin access. The local admin account on the vista has the same cridentials as the xp computer (i changed it to see what happens and it says access is denied) so i know i have admin rights.

I am not interested in third-party programs.

How to connect to the interet with linux Ubuntu ?

Posted by Alicja on November 16th, 2009
I recently reformated my hard drive and installed linux Ubuntu. Everything has been working exept that i cannot connect to the interet. When I try it just brings up the interet passcode box and says i need to retype it. Is it my router or am I just doing something wrong?

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