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Mac Networking/Expert Profile
Expertise
Was a MacOS sys/network Admin for about 5(5 Mac, 7 Windows) years...gears more towards linux and windows at this point, but I am confident I can help in various areas of Mac/Apple networking from localtalk to the newest standards. Deal with more enterprise integration of Macs on PC networks/domains. Can help with iPhone settings in any area(hopefully!)
Experience in the area
Sys/Net Admin
Organizations
various
Publications
Just tech manuals
Education/Credentials
Undergrad degree IST
Past/Present Clients
various
What do you like about this subject?
Hungry for Knowledge!!!
What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?
Constantly Learning new technologies in the Operating System arena. It's all useful at some point in time or another.
Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:
Mac OS X is based off of BSD(Berkeley systems Distro) which IS UNIX!!! Macs are great machines (OS)...Need to license the OS again to gain momentum! Go Steve!!!
Something controversial or provocative about this subject
I did predict the Mac would move to a CISC(complicated instruction set computing) platform before leaving RISC(reduced instruction set computing) in 1995!
Average Ratings
Recent Reviews from Users
K = Knowledgeability C = Clarity of Response T = Timeliness P = Politeness| User | Date | K | C | T | P | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| elizabeth | 10/05/09 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 10 | Thanks for your help! |
| Peter | 08/25/09 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
| Salim | 07/30/09 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | Actually.. you led the way to getting ..... |
| Katie | 06/22/09 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | Thanks Toby! Everything you suggested was very ..... |
| nevil | 06/06/09 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | Thanks- it was the keychain solution that ..... |
Recent Answers from toby
2009-10-08 MacBook Pro Printing via router:
I don't want to reinvent the wheel, so I will lead you to this site: http://www.wirelessforums.org/troubleshooting/printer-canon-pixma-mp620-wifi-mac If it doesn't work for
2009-10-05 Can't connect to Windows Share - Please Help:
Sorry it took so long to respond I never received an email, I saw it when I had another question to answer. Are you putting in the domain name then username under the username? Even though you may not
2009-09-30 mac + pc + netgear + printer:
Sorry for the delay, been very busy. The computers are already networked. You can turn on Windows file sharing in the prefs on the mac. The best thing to do as far as the printing is connect it to the
2009-09-29 mac + pc + netgear + printer:
You should be able to network all three. Did you say the mac desktop has wireless? Either way you can share the printer from either the mac or pc. The netgear is irrelevant. Basically any router will work
2009-09-12 WG111v2 and airport express:
Firstly sorry about the delay. I never received an email until this morning telling me I had a pending question! There are different types of encryption and security protocols such as WEP and WPA, WPA2(with
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