After too many hours fighting with poor quality free wireless I am trying out mobile broadband. A friend loaned me his Sierra Wireless 597 3g. After installing the Snow Leopard drivers from Sprint it works fine.
However if I attempt to connect a pptp or ipsec vpn the connection drops with the error: “Disconnected. Multiple connections are not allowed. Your CDMA connection was terminated.” It behaves the same way if you attempt to connect to a wireless network.
The fix turns out to be simple. In SmartView:
Tools->Settings
click Hardware
select ‘Allow Simultaneous Connections.’
Here’s the link that got me on the right track:
http://forums.juniper.net/t5/SSL-VPN/Sprint-SmartView-disconnects-when-NC-launches/td-p/9579;jsessionid=C56E06204F45FFF85712812235447301
Did you get a new Mac and you can’t figure out how to copy files from your old Windows PC?
Did you bring home a Windows PC from the office and you want to copy your Mac files to it?
Tired of your Mac and just bought a Windows PC?
It’s actually pretty easy to copy files between them.
This assumes you have a high speed internet connection, a working wireless or wired router, an Apple Macintosh running OS 10.x, and Windows XP. This will work with any version of Windows supported by WinSCP.
Make sure your Mac and pc can connect to the internet.
1) download WinSCP from http://winscp.net/eng/download.php
It’s free. Install it on your pc.
2) go into system preferences on the mac
click sharing under network and internet
check ‘Remote Login’
close the window
3) Get your Mac’s ip address:
from the finder go to apple->about this mac
click ‘more info’
click Network
built in Ethernet or airport should have an IPv4 address
4) Use that address in WinSCP to login to your mac from your pc. You’ll
need to enter the user name and password you created on the mac when you
set it up. Once you login you should have 2 panes– the left is the pc,
the right is your mac. Drag files over.
5) The files are not put on your desktop– double click on the hard drive
icon on your mac and the click on your user name on the right of the file
browser.
