Is there any way to set up my mini (osx-lion) to be a VPN server?
I searched this in google, and got two solution:
They are iVPN and VPN Server Configurator, but they are not free.
I would like to do this for free, is it possible? and I am not running OS X server. Also I am behind a router (so there is only one external IP address for 8 computers).
I want to use PPTP.
Is there any solution?
Thanks a lot.
Mac is unix, so you can use most of the linux vpn server, like pptpd
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I have a windows machine that has a local WAMP server running without the Internet. I would need to connect a few Mac computers to that local server via Ethernet cable stream some video content.
I kind of know that I would need a router to connect all to Mac computers and a server computer. I am still not clear how to do it without the Internet.
Any Help would be really appreciated! Thank you!
You should be able to just get an ethernet switch (something like this) and connect everything. You would then just reference your server in a browser or other app by it's IP address or computer name instead of a www address.
What you are talking about is soomthing called a peer-to-peer setup. See this Setting up a Peer to Peer Network
I have a mac running Lion OS, and Windows 7 Ultimate installed on VMware Fusion
on my Windows machine, I have IIS running and I can access it from my mac browser using the IP address such as:
http://192.168.0.10
I am developing an iPhone app on xcode and connecting to IIS as a server to access MS Server DB for testing.
my problem is that I use my mac on many networks such as Work, Home, MiFi and others
every time I change the network the IP changes and every time I need to access IIS I need to update my server IP in my app.
even on my home netwrok or MiFi the IP is the same every time I connect (Dynamic)
I am thinking to access the IIS using the PC name on my windows 7 machine like this:
http://mypcname
to make easier to test without editing the IP every time.
Can anyone guide me how to do that? I did search around many sites and forums to figure it out with no success, maybe I am missing something.
Thanks in advance.
I'm trying to test my iPad app which accesses a web service currently running on my machine. How can I make it so the app can make calls to the web service?
The easiest way would be to connect your iPad and your PC to the same wireless network.
Every computer in your network has an unique Network IP (Usually something like "192.168.0.100"). If you know how to to connect to localhost it usually suffices to change the localhost to the network IP of the computer you're trying to access,
If your machine is a mac, I had a similar question which was answered here. Enable web sharing on the mac and everything should be available to you.
I'm trying to test my iPhone application on the device.
I have a mac computer which stores my development environment.
Right now I can only access PHP files using the http://localhost/PHPFileLocation
which does not work when I try to test my app on real device.
How do I configure apache2 to be accessible from outside?
Is it possible to configure it to a specific IP address?
I want to reach some php scripts located on my development machine running apache2 from my iPhone device.
Thanks
If your computer has a WiFi card then you should be able to attach the iPhone remotely to a ad-hoc Wifi network created on your dev machine.
I'm assuming your Mac is behind a router. You should be able to configure your router to port forward connections to your WAN facing IP address to port 80 (the HTTP port) on your Mac - see http://portforward.com/ for some help.
You may also need to turn the firewall off on your Mac.
Once this is set up correctly you can hit http://yourexternalIP/PHPFileLocation in your iPhone app and this will be directed by your router to the Apache2 server on your Mac. The external IP is normally found on your router's admin page somewhere.
I'm running the app engine devserver on localhost:8080, and want to access it from ie7 running on parallels.
I've tried all of the tips here:
How Do I Access The Host Machine From The Guest Machine?
And they seem like they should work, particularly accessing via the gateway ip address. I've also
sudo ipfw add allow tcp from 8080 to 8089
for good measure. Still no dice. I can access the external internet from ie7. The connection settings on parallels are set to 'Shared networking'. I'm out of ideas.
You're not by any chance running it on localhost/127.0.0.1 on OS X and are trying to get at it using localhost/127.0.0.1 from XP?
If so, that's likely to be your problem - I would seriously doubt that the two instances of the OS share the loopback interface as that's specific to the OS.
I'd run it on OS X using the local IP and not localhost, then use the IP address to access it from XP. This should work if the XP box can see the host.