When you think about networking, IP addresses are probably the first things that come to mind. But there’s another type of network address called a MAC address that actually forms the foundation upon ...

What to do if you left a FireWire drive connected during the update and had problems In its release notes for Mac OS X 10.3.7, Apple explained that users should disconnect any FireWire drives before ...

Every network adapter has what is called a Media Access Control address that uniquely identifies it. Think of it as an ID. Having to manually go to every computer on the network, and taking the time ...

I'm going to be helping a friend set up a network for his new business. It's a fairly small operation: 3 or 4 machines, one mac mini server (running Lion) and a plotter. The only problem is that I'm a ...