CHRISTOPHJPETERChristoph Peter

 I got my mac with Tiger and was amazed how well the networking worked in comparison to windows. Once I upgraded to leopard I wasn’t all that happy anymore. So here I want to address the bugs I came across and how I partially solved them.

Wifi problems:

At my parents house a have a simple WEP encrypted Wifi which used to work great, but Leopard simply can’t connect properly since it wants to force WPA security settings although its WEP. Nothing would solve the problem unless I ran the diagnose assistant. There it was recognized as WEP and I could get a connection. The big drawback is that I had to repeat this step every time my Notebook wakes up from standby. In addition Leopard does not remember the WiFi. It is listet in the Know Networks but I have to go through all these steps again and again.

Windows shares / SMB shares

At the very beging I noticed that my windows shared computers would not show up in the sidebar as they should. One thing you can do if your shared computer does not show up is to connect manually using this command:

smb://yourcomputersnameorIP

This will mount the lost share and you can access it.

I bought my first mac (Macbook Pro) only a month before Leopard was released. At first I was amazed how well tiger 10.4 performed. I then upgraded to Leopard in the first few days after the launch and was really disappointed. Once the computer ran for about an hour the dock became laggy and unsmooth, window effects were just as bad. I found the reason for this to be the 3d glass effekt of the dock. One can solve this problem by deactivating this greatly advertised feature of leopard by typing the following lines of code into the console.
Solution:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall Dock

After this very simple step, I found my new OS to run as smooth as expected.