Not sure about which tool the GUI uses. But you can probably use /usr/sbin/networksetup to do what you want.
Agustin On Aug 16, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Jonathon Kuo wrote: > On Aug 16, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Markus Hitter wrote: >> >> Am 16.08.2010 um 19:12 schrieb Jonathon Kuo: >> >>> In Network Preferences there's a panel in the GUI to create a >>> computer-to-computer network. This works fine. The only problem is that >>> upon reboot, the network gets 'uncreated' and has to be recreated manually >>> again each time… >>> >>> I think this means I need to write a program or a script that gets run when >>> the system boots to create such a network, but I don't know what commands >>> the GUI executes behind the scenes to do this. How can I accomplish this? >> >> If you're one of the rare persons not being connected to another network >> (the Internet), you can configure your ethernet adapters manually. Just two >> IP addresses distinct in the last of the four numbers, no router, no DHCP, >> no DNS. This should survive reboots and enable you to connect from one >> machine to the server of the other. Works on about all OSs, not only on Mac >> OS X. > > Hi Markus, > > I'm trying to get two devices, an iPad and a Mac mini, to talk to each other > only, via wifi. Right now I'm manually creating a computer-to-computer > network on the mini and connecting to it from the iPad. Then I use Bonjour > over that network to communicate. Works well except on reboot or wake from > sleep. The mini is part of a mobile device that gets activated on demand, so > it's not always up. > > Would what you describe above still apply to this paradigm? AFAICT, there's > no way to manually set an IP address on an iPad or iPhone, only to connect to > an existing network that it detects? > >> >> BTW., there's usually no need to reboot a computer but for some system >> updates. Put it in sleep mode while not using it. Much more comfortable. > > Hmm. I just tested this, and even upon wake from sleep, the 'created' network > goes away on the mini, and it presents a dialog to connect to whatever other > wifi signal happens to be present. Not good. > > -Jon > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-admin mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
