Hi all-
Hope this isn't too far OT, but it's definitely appropriate for PB's as
well as the iBook on question. I have a G4 tower running OS X.2.6 that's
hooked to my cable modem. It has an Airport card, which uses Internet
sharing to act as a software base station to give my Wallstreet (OK, now
it's G-book appropriate ;-) and iBook access to the net and each other. I
brought home a Win98SE PC from work, which has a basic (ethernet) network
card in it, and I'm trying to use the iBook as an "Airport receiver",
attaching the PC to the iBook by ethernet to share the iBook's wireless net
connection. I'm hitting a wall (likely PC related...), so here are a few
questions:
1. Do I use a standard ethernet patch cable to connect the PC to the iBook
(which I used for all these experiments), or do I need a crossover cable (or
doesn't it matter)?
2. I've tried setting the ethernet networking of both computers to DHCP,
then tried manual/static IP but neither worked. Do I need to set DNS or
gateway settings on the PC if I do this? See below for Apple tech document
on this - I tried all this... only problem is that I don't know how to set
the PC...
Can anyone help??
Thanks!
Marty Lindower
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu.
2. Choose Network from the View menu.
3. Choose the port you use to physically connect to the Internet from the
Show pop-up menu, . See Note 1.
4. Click the TCP/IP tab.
5. This pane should already be set up as directed by your Internet service
provider. If it is not, make corrections. For more specific setup
information, see technical document 106796, " Mac OS X: Internet and Network
Topics (Getting Connected, Troubleshooting) ".
6. Choose Network Port Configurations from the Show pop-up menu. See Note 2.
7. If the port you chose in Step 3 is not at the top of the list, drag it to
the top. See Note 3.
8. Locate the port you use for local File Sharing.
9. If this port is not second in the port configurations list, drag it to
the second position.
10. Choose this port from the Show pop-up menu.
11. Click the TCP/IP tab.
12. Choose Manually from the Configure pop-up menu.
13. Enter these settings:
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
IP address: 10.0.1.x
The "x" in the address 10.0.1.x represents any number between 1 and 255, for
example "10.0.1.2". Just be sure that each computer has a different address.
Leave the router and other fields blank.
14. Click Apply Now.
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