Mac airplay help please - Bozza mainly

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lost in london

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• Oct 18, 2013

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Wildly off topic, but will two macs (an imac and a mac mini) in one house be able to talk to each other without any need for additional hardware? We've got an imac downstairs, and are thinking about getting a mac mini for an office upstairs. Would be great if they could feel like one computer (save something downstairs, can look at it later upstairs) without bothering with cloud storage. I've got bogged down trying to understand this online and thought NSC (Bozza) could help.

And for all the comedians out there, yes, I have tried turning it off and on again.

Thanks

 

Bozza

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• Oct 18, 2013

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Yes, you can as long as they are on the same network.

You can share drives between the devices so you can just navigate around as required and you can also share screens (like remote desktoping in Windows-land). We do this by using our MacBook Airs to access the desktop of the Mac Mini we have connected to the TV so we don't need to use a separate keyboard and touch pad.

iTunes can share libraries too if, for example, you wanted to play music upstairs from the iMac downstairs.

It's all very straight forward.

 

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lost in london

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Excellent, thanks very much.

One more question though - if the signal isn't strong enough to link the two (quite a few walls to get through), is there a way it can be boosted?

 

Bozza

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lost in london said:

Excellent, thanks very much.

One more question though - if the signal isn't strong enough to link the two (quite a few walls to get through), is there a way it can be boosted?

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Not my specialist subject, but you can get booster/repeaters, or you could use Net Plugs, I guess.

 

KNC

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• Oct 18, 2013

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There's a thread about WiFi boosters currently running.

 

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Thanks both

 

Beach Hut

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Living In a Box

• Oct 18, 2013

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lost in london said:

Wildly off topic, but will two macs (an imac and a mac mini) in one house be able to talk to each other without any need for additional hardware? We've got an imac downstairs, and are thinking about getting a mac mini for an office upstairs. Would be great if they could feel like one computer (save something downstairs, can look at it later upstairs) without bothering with cloud storage. I've got bogged down trying to understand this online and thought NSC (Bozza) could help.

And for all the comedians out there, yes, I have tried turning it off and on again.

Thanks

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I downloaded via the iMac to two Airbooks windows for Mac via the hard drive, in my chronic lack of technical knowledge it was very easy

 

Cappers

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• Oct 18, 2013

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Yes I can vouch that it works,sdo long as on same wifi network. I even managed it with a mac and a windows laptop. If you need to boost the signal, there is a current thread as mentioned above, but if you have a time capsule , an airport express is the best and most straightforward