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Mac Forum / General / Networking / November 2004Internet connect with Mac as host PC as guest
Can any one tell me how to connect a PC running XP to my Mac G4 running OSX so the PC can log on to the internet as a guest through the G4 as host please? Both can see each other through an ethernet box fine and work great transfering between them no problem at all. I have tried all the obvious routes and advice from apple site and XP help etc but nothing seems to work. Interent connection is through internal modem on the mac as is not ADSL. Cheers for any help * posted via http://mymac.ws > Can any one tell me how to connect a PC running XP to my Mac G4 > running OSX so the PC can log on to the internet as a guest through [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Interent connection is through internal modem on the mac as is not > ADSL. (1) Configure the PC for DHCP on its Ethernet connection. Make sure there is no other DHCP server on the LAN. (2) Connect to your ISP through the Mac's internal modem. (3) Go to the Mac's System Preferences -> Sharing -> Internet, select Modem in the "Share your connection from:" pop-up menu and check "Built-in Ethernet" in the "To computers using:" list. (4) Find out why no sane person shares a connection this way unless he absolutely has to. re: (4) My G4 regularly connects at 46 or 48k. The pc, despite having the same protocol modem never connects at anything greater than 28k, usually much slower. So it makes a lot of sense to let the Mac connect and share the faster connection. Now as to the sane part... That's debatable. jk > > Can any one tell me how to connect a PC running XP to my Mac G4 > > running OSX so the PC can log on to the internet as a guest through [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > (4) Find out why no sane person shares a connection this way unless he > absolutely has to. > Can any one tell me how to connect a PC running XP to my Mac G4 > running OSX so the PC can log on to the internet as a guest through [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > * posted via http://mymac.ws Make sure you are connected to the internet. Go to your System Preferences > Sharing. You will see three buttons, Services, Firewall and Internet. Click on the Internet button and start sharing your network connection. Go to your PC and tell it to obtain an IP address with DHCP. That should do it. Thanks for your help guys and whilst not totally sane Idon't have achoice but to connect this way for now!! Have tried all your advice before and again now and still no joy - however I cannot seem to get a DCHP control panel up only TCP/IP on the PC - excuse my ignorance if they be the same things! Also (and I guess here) I think the PC might be trying to access through the modem and not via the ethernet link - is there a way of checking that or changing that. This might be something very easy that I have missed but am not too good on PCs. Thanks for any help as still stumped as what to do!! * posted via http://mymac.ws > re: (4) My G4 regularly connects at 46 or 48k. The pc, despite having > the same protocol modem never connects at anything greater than 28k, > usually much slower. So it makes a lot of sense to let the Mac connect > and share the faster connection. > Now as to the sane part... That's debatable. > jk > Thanks for your help > Okay so sanity was never one of my strong points! [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > ADSL in February? > Cheers * posted via http://mymac.ws |
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