[Peabo]

I just bought my first PC, and need to use it to share a cable modem (ethernet) connection with my G4 running OS X. The modem and both computers are plugged into an ethernet hub. What software do I need to put on the PC to do this?

P.S. an hour after installing XP on the machine, i got a blue screen of death and had to initialize the whole disk. this was my first PC and i had no idead they could be so annoying! >.< On top of that, the cd rom stopped working another hour later and i had to buy a new one!!

[climber]

I would repost this in networking. but is you mac working on the net?

[Homer1946]

Originally posted by climber:
I would repost this in networking. but is you mac working on the net?

It is SO much simpler to just replace that hub with a cheap router. They are down to like $50.

-R

[Musti]

Originally posted by z0ne81:
I just bought my first PC, and need to use it to share a cable modem (ethernet) connection with my G4 running OS X. The modem and both computers are plugged into an ethernet hub. What software do I need to put on the PC to do this?

P.S. an hour after installing XP on the machine, i got a blue screen of death and had to initialize the whole disk. this was my first PC and i had no idead they could be so annoying! >.< On top of that, the cd rom stopped working another hour later and i had to buy a new one!!

A hub cannot create virtual IPs to share an internet connection, whereas a router can.
You have to choices:
1. Buy a router (they are dirt cheap these days, particularly the "wired" ethernet flavours, as people started switching to wireless)
2. Buy a second ethernet card for your Windows PC, and configure one card to get data from the modem and the other to send it to the hub for splitting. XP's Internet Sharing is a well-thought but poorly implemented feature (typical Microsoft). The software is already built-in.

You can find thousands of articles on the web about this. I had to go through a lot one and a half years ago. So I'd definitely suggest the first choice. Setting up a router is very easy.

Good luck.

[Cipher13]

Originally posted by Musti:
A hub cannot create virtual IPs to share an internet connection, whereas a router can.
You have to choices:
1. Buy a router (they are dirt cheap these days, particularly the "wired" ethernet flavours, as people started switching to wireless)
2. Buy a second ethernet card for your Windows PC, and configure one card to get data from the modem and the other to send it to the hub for splitting. XP's Internet Sharing is a well-thought but poorly implemented feature (typical Microsoft). The software is already built-in.

You can find thousands of articles on the web about this. I had to go through a lot one and a half years ago. So I'd definitely suggest the first choice. Setting up a router is very easy.

Good luck.

Uh, why not use the OSX box?

Turn on DHCP on the PC and Internet Sharing in the System Preferences on the Mac... should work from there (mind you I've never used the built in sharing - I prefer doing it manually).