Is Rendezvous Sharing More Than You'd Like?

Gropo asks: "I just got an email from my father who has just recently upgraded from OS 9 to Mac OS X on his PowerMac. He's connected to the 'net via Adelphia Cable and shares his TCP connection with my Mother's iMac via Software Base Station. He got a call from his neighbor (also running Mac OS X) who noticed 'My Father's Computer' show up on his network. My first thought was: 'He's picking up your AirPort signal' - alas the neighbor has no AirPort card. The neighbor *does* however also have an Adelphia cable modem. I asked him to scan for available afp:// servers and sure enough, a foreign machine showed up. What's the easiest way (if at all possible) to enable auto-detection for the local wireless LAN (useful for file and printer sharing within the household) yet remain invisible to other people also behind the cable companies' local DHCP box?"

Comments

time to "switch"

[Anonymous Coward]

Clearly you're seeing the effects of the insecure Mac OS X operating system. What do you expect from a company who knows so little about Unix they don't even know to put double quotes around filenames that might have spaces, thus wiping out your hard drive? Remember that one?

Get that Mac up on eBay where it belongs. Get dad a secure Windows XP machine. He's an adult now, he doesn't need the Mac. You won't see daddy's files on the local LAN, that's for sure, and you might even be able to buy some useful software for a well-supported platform, not some toy from Steve Job's imagination.

Re:Airport

[red5]

EMD you're so smart. You can take what the other guy said, wait seven hours and regurgatate it. I whish I could be cool like you, but alas my moma doesn't dress me like a girl.