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bearcatrp
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Jan 18, 2008, 10:26 AM
 
Here is what I am thinking of doing but need you networking guru's advice to make sure I am doing this right.
Am getting a apple tv. I have a mac pro and a 24 inch imac in the bedroom and the 50 inch tv in the living room. I use my imac to watch movies in bed using front row. I am thinking moving my itunes library to the pro, do a direct connect (ethernet) between them and use the pro for streaming my videos to the tv and (if possible) watch my movies on my imac. 1) Can I get front row to access the pro for the movies throught ethernet to my imac or will I have to stream it from the pro throught the apple tv back to my imac?
Randy
2010 Mac Mini, 32GB iPod Touch, 2 Apple TV (1)
Home built 12 core 2.93 Westmere PC (almost half the cost of MP) Win7 64.
     
bearcatrp  (op)
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Jan 18, 2008, 11:49 AM
 
Been looking on apple's web site. Read conflicting info on this. One part says yes and another says no. I'll just give it a shot and see what happens. If anyone know a better way, please feel free to chime in. tnks
Randy
2010 Mac Mini, 32GB iPod Touch, 2 Apple TV (1)
Home built 12 core 2.93 Westmere PC (almost half the cost of MP) Win7 64.
     
bearcatrp  (op)
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Jan 18, 2008, 01:40 PM
 
I got it working. Sweet. I do have a delema though, I don't have a wireless card installed on the mac pro. Instead of buying one and installing it, will a USB one work with apple tv or would it be better to install a apple card? Plan on moving my entire library to my pro since I leave it on all the time for crunching grid stuff. I'll check whats out there but if someone out there is using a USB wireless modual, let me know how well or bad it works. I'll post in the hardware section.
Randy
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2010 Mac Mini, 32GB iPod Touch, 2 Apple TV (1)
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