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#1 2009-07-14 10:34 pm
- chicagotransitauthority
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airport and automatic start up
I understand how to add items such as mail, safari, etc. to start up at login. What I don't understand is how one starts the airport network first so the mail is being retrieved, safari opens to a home page etc. Thanks in advance.
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#2 2009-07-15 8:21 am
- sturner
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Re: airport and automatic start up
Network connection is automatic upon boot up. If you have to log in to a server then that would be problematic. Most home connections, however, connect without a login to a server. If your airport is on, and functioning, and you boot up your mac, then the computer should make the IP connection automatically.
Are you not experiencing that?
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#3 2009-07-15 9:11 am
- dv
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Re: airport and automatic start up
Sturner - if you have automatic logins enables, and the mail app launches too fast, it will attempt to retrieve email from the server before the airport network has finished connecting.
For security reasons alone, any laptop should have a proper login screen, requiring you to enter a username/password. (Not that there aren't ways around it, but it at least serves as a deterrent to casual snooping by theives.) Incidentally, it will also give your network a chance to connect.
The only way I know to establish a network connection faster is to hard-wire it.
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#4 2009-07-15 9:33 am
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Re: airport and automatic start up
I agree, with what you say dv. I always have a screen login, which allows the basic machine kernal and processes to boot first before any ancilliary processes (plugins, programs, et. al.). If he were connecting to a server through a specific login after his boot up, that would cause the same problems. but that is more common in a commercial setting. In a home setting his connection should occur automatically. But I'm positing more complications that I should.
The screen login does serve two purposes, security, and then timing. I've used a screen login for so long in OS X that I forgot about that.
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