> Oops. Clicked the send button by mistake. Sheesh what's it with me today. Second wrong send click > Paul wrote: > >> All this happens automatically now Nick. Give me an example of what >> you mean. And just for the record I am certainly no network guy >> myself. I'm just a curious music guy that doesn't mind getting my >> hands dirty occasionally. > > Okay. In my set-up, I have MIDI-Over-LAN (musiclab.com) going from > one G5/Logic machine to a slave G5 and three Windows slaves. Since > moving to a 30" Cinema display, I've also been controlling the slaves > over the network (Remote Desktop) recently - my physical KVM switcher > has been sitting on the floor unused. Similar story here since I got Remote Desktop... > To make that work, each slave machine has to have a fixed IP address; > if you just use DHCP, the IP addresses are liable to change every > time you turn a machine on and off, and you will go fricking nuts > trying to get everything to connect. I also have a color laser > printer and another network printer (an all-in-one); they too need > fixed addresses, especially the laser printer, since I turn it off > when I'm not using it (the noise is unbearable). Plus my daughter's > Mac is on the network so she can share a third printer. (There's > rhyme and reason to why I have all these printers - I'm only slightly > bonkers. :) ) > > That means you have to go in and assign each machine on the network > an IP address manually. Same with the printers - you have to dig > through the cryptic menus and assign them numbers. > > This isn't a huge deal once you understand what's going on, but I > only learned how to do this recently. Without wanting to sound > overly arrogant, I've been working on Macs literally all day long for > the past 20 years and making my living writing about music and > recording technology for about 15 of those years. If I only just > figured this out, I have a massive enough ego to believe that it's > more complicated than it needs to be. :) > > You can use Rendezvous to locate all the machines, but it's not > automatic - especially if you have Macs and Windows and other stuff. > It purports to be automatic, but before setting up my network > correctly I would have to spent ten minutes figuring out why > something wasn't seeing MIDI every time. And I mean every time. > > That's what I mean when I say it should all be automatic. You should > be able to set up networks as easily as you can define your MIDI rig > in Audio MIDI Setup. OK. I see now. Yes I've had the same problem with remote desktop loosing my powerbook and only just understood it for the first time recently myself. Isn't there a way of reserving certain ip addresses for certain machines? I vaguely recall seeing this on a router page somewhere. I also agree with you that networking can be very intimidating. It's only since OSX that I feel comfortable enough to achieve as much as I have. It somehow seems to have made the whole thing a lot clearer that OS9 ever did. That said it could still be easier.... Regards ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Paul Najar Jaminajar Music Production www.jaminajar.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until May 31st! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details