I really don't think that was necessary at all.Does anyone know how to cahnge it back or is it not necessary? So after, researching more than one should about SMB, Group Policies in XP, encrypted protocols, registry changes and terminal changes.I think it was simply a 3rd party firewall.īy the way i changed my Mac to use plain text passwords to make SMB/CIFS connections using the procedure described at apple support
Pccomputername and should have been using smb://.x/Ģ) More importantly, I believe, connection could not be made behind *Zone Alarm* running on the PC I am operational and really not sure how, however I believe this was the problem:
It would seem to me that this should be rather straight forward, unless I am doing something very wrong basicallyĪny help would be great….a link, a step by step, something I have just screwed up…thx in advance The hope here is that the device will transmit something when first powered on.
2) set up this device on a switch port and then wireshark on a mirrored port. Tried ‘add a network place’ in XP using the address under OSX accounts (no luck, invalid address or permission errors) 1) if the device is set to dhcp just let it pickup an address and then inspect the dhcp server for the mac address assigned.
Results in error (the finder cannot complete the operation because some of the data in “smb://.x/pc name “ could not be read or written, error code –36) Tried connect to sever using smb protocol (not sure if I used that correctly at all) You can see the MAC address of your MacOS. I tried ipconfig in XP and found my PC and my Aircard (no reference to my mac) Finding MAC Address in Macintosh OS X using System Preferences. XP workgroup folder/ My previously named PC alias (which can’t be found when asked to connect My network places/View workgroup computers/ Ran the network setup wizard in XP, created a work group, named the computers, setup windows file sharing, setup permission for windows sharing Select the interface you’re currently using to connect to the Internet (it’s. In the left-hand menu, you should see a few options such as Wi-Fi and Ethernet. I connected an Ethernet crossover cable form my PC to my Mac To locate your local IP address: Click the ‘Apple’ logo in your Mac’s menu bar. (Also, had previously installed the aircard in the Mac and it connects to the net with no issues) (no issues connecting to the net with the PC and the aircard) If the above steps do not work, take a screen shot and then replace the IP address of the Drobo with 169.254.213.234. Enter telnet x.x.x.x 5000 where x.x.x.x is the IP address of the Drobo.
You may still need to configure any software firewall that is running on each PC to always accept traffic from other PCs on the same network, but other than that and as long as you haven't any IP address conflicts (each PC needs to be given a unique IP address) you should be good to go.Cellular Internet Connection through Pantech PC5750 AirCard If you are using Windows, do the following Go to Start. You can also forget about the DNS server addresses, because you won't require DNS resolution for what you're doing, and in any event, you won't have a DNS server running at those addresses (or indeed anywhere) on your network. (Subnet mask 255.0.0.0), but this is by no means necessary. You can configure Logical/Probe IP address for SonicWall to monitor a reliable device on one or more of the. You might want to use the address range 10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.255 as this is reserved for private networks and is non-routable. Click to expand.If you're intending on LAN only connections using a network switch, then you can forget about port forwarding and DMZs as they are a router/hardware firewall function and only apply to traffic coming in from the internet which you won't have if you're just connected via a network switch.