Xavier de C�rdenas wrote: > Thank you to everyone who replied to my posting. > > I am truly a newbie at networking and OS X, but I was finally able to get > Sharity to work by creating a new network port under system preferences. I > am not sure if this is described any where in the documentation. (BTW > excellent program, my respects to the developers) > > For the sake of another newbie needing help with this, the steps I took > were: > > 1. Open the System Preferences from the dock > 2. Click on Network and go to the "TCP/IP" tab > 3. Click on the drop down menu "Show: Active Network Ports" > 4. Since I connect to the internet using a DSL modem I had 2 port > configurations, one for Internal Modem and another for Built-in Ethernet > (this is what connects to the external modem) To use Sharity I needed to > assign a fixed IP, so I created a third Port Configuration which I named > "LAN" by clicking new. > 5. Once a new configuration is created select it from the drop down menu. > This will bring you to the TCP/IP tab again. Here I selected Configure > Manually from the drop down. > 6. I entered a unique IP Address and the Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 > > I hope this helps. If someone has a better suggestion please let me know.
Interesting, thanks!! >From a Unix perspective, you have created an alias for your ethernet port with a second IP address. This makes sure that Sharity will always see at least one interface when it asks the operating system for the network configuration. Regards, Christian. -- Dipl.-Ing. Christian Starkjohann Objective Development mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.obdev.at/ _______________________________________________ Sharity-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://at.obdev.at/mailman/listinfo/sharity-talk
