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

mac attack

[Michael.Forman]

there once was a power mac
on the net i thought i'd hack
i was stunned to see
it ran bsd
my plans were thus set back


Michael.

sh: /usr/bin/fortune: not found

Talk about unlikely...

[Big Sean O]

Two guys, neighbors, both running Jaguar, both on the same cable modem subnet.

I mean, what are the odds? They're so low to be trivial! :-)

(Caveat: I've been a Mac user since 1984, so this slam is just good natured ribbing...)

Re:time to "switch"

[Gropo]

Wow, hilarious. Guess what? Dad started out in the industry by programming tabulation machines in the 60's, later IBM mainframes, partnered in a business renting time on Harvard's mainframe to calculate regional school system schedules and even co-authored a Lord of the Rings game for the MiniPDP he'd bring home to us on weekends back in the early 80's.

I don't think he needs some greenhorn pissant telling him what platform best suits his needs.

Get dad a secure Windows XP machine.

SOMEONE SET UP MY DAD THE RAW SOCKETS

Try again, dingleberry.