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Connect MacBook Pro to Costa O2 Wifi

26 August 202026 August 2020

I recently had issues connecting my Macbook to the free wifi in Costa. I tried wifi diags, rebooting and nothing worked. It connected but never bought up the validation page. I had custom DNS servers set up and by clearing all those it then worked and allowed me to authenticate […]

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Browsing Mac Shares from Windows 7

12 June 2012

I wasn’t able to see my Mac network share from Windows 7 and the single edit to the security policy that worked for Vista, didn’t work for Windows 7. It turns out a second step was needed, as detailed below: Start>secpol.msc [enter] Click on “Local Policies” –> “Security Options” Navigate […]