Thanks to everybody; you're teaching me a lot about networking. It appears that I've had a LAN for a couple of years now without knowing about it. I thought this was just a fancy DSL modem that could wirelessly allow another computer in the house to surf the Net.
I got out my "Mac OS-X Leopard Missing Manual" by David Pogue to see what he says about wireless networking, and the book told me how to turn on file sharing, and lo and behold, these two Macs can see each other's files. And the Mac in the next room can print on the printer attached to the first one. Wish I'd known that a long time ago, because countless times we've brought documents over on a flash drive from the second computer to the first one in order to print them, when all we had to do (had we known) was turn on printer sharing and print the docs directly. Sheesh. Ignorance is bliss, and stupid too. If the second computer hadn't thrown up a message saying that it wouldn't run Final Cut because the first computer was already running it, I never would have known that they were networked. (About that, by the way, I bought this early version of Final Cut Studio off Ebay a few years ago, and I figure I should be able to run it on any Mac I have in my own home. Guess Apple has other ideas. Anyway, the point is moot: Apple just discontinued Final Cut Studio, so it's obsolete now). Now I'm wondering about security for this LAN. We live out in the country, and the nearest neighbor's house is hundreds of feet away, so I doubt anyone is eavesdropping on our network. But if there are firewalls and passwords, I'll attend to them, once I learn how (back to Pogue). Bruce, I don't understand how I might 'open the "modem" with a browser' to learn more about it. If you explain that I'll give it a try. I'm running both Safari and Firefox, but I don't see anything in their menus related to modems. Thanks again everybody. Tom -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
