[dademurphy]

Okay, this is odd. I have a G4 iMac with an AP Extreme card (which acts as base station) and a G3 powerbook with a plain ol' 1st generation airport card. Until recently everything worked fine and I was able to share the iMac's net connection with the powerbook.

Now, all of a sudden I can't browse via the powerbook on the AP network. Mail.app still fetches the mail, I can still chat all day on all the major chat networks, but on all three browsers I have (Safari, IE, Mozilla), I cannot bring up any web pages.

I've played with my network settings and even tried dropping firewalls, but nothing I'm doing is working. I do notice that this coincidentally happened not too long after installing the latest AP update (3.1.1).

Has anyone else had this problem? Any ideas what I might be overlooking?

[kampl]

Just out of curiosity, can you telnet to port 80 on say.... www.yahoo.com in Terminal.app?

telnet www.yahoo.com 80

That would rule out filtering rules at any point on your network at least.

[dademurphy]

Sorry for the late reply. Okay, telneting like you suggested yielded nothing. Terminal just kind of sat there for three minutes until I killed it.

I did notice that on the iMac side, under Network->Airport, the IP is "self-assigned" to 169.x.x.x I read in another forum that a 169 IP means that the DHCP request has timed out. Could this be where the problem is lurking, and if so, where do I begin to fix such a thing.

[BkueKanoodle]

You try turning off the inernet connection sharing on the imac, rebooting the imac, and then turning iSharing back on. This may give it the kick in the oants it needs.

I can't guarantuee it will work, but its worth a try

[dademurphy]

Found the problem! Turns out Prefs>Sharing>Services>Personal Web Sharing got unchecked somehow (it wasn't ME!! ) so it wasn't letting any of the internet goodness through the iMac's firewall.

I can't believe I didn't catch that sooner. Nice to know I'm an idiot.

Thanks to all who posted for your advice!

[ghporter]

Originally posted by dademurphy:
Found the problem! ... I can't believe I didn't catch that sooner. Nice to know I'm an idiot.

Thanks to all who posted for your advice!

Welcome to the club! I spent an hour not too long ago trying to find out why my router wasn't routing. It was plugged in--but the transformer block's other end wasn't really plugged into the router. Don't you just love those no-brainers that wrack your brain?

[Macpilot]

Originally posted by dademurphy:
Found the problem! Turns out Prefs>Sharing>Services>Personal Web Sharing got unchecked somehow (it wasn't ME!! ) so it wasn't letting any of the internet goodness through the iMac's firewall.

Hmmmm...

I don't think that setting would affect your ability to surf off the other machine's internet connection. That service, Personal Web Sharing, is only for stuff in the other machines's Sites folder.

I am having a problem right now that is similar, but enabling that service did nothing for me. You should not have to enable any of those services to use the software base station feature of Jag. You should only have to turn on Internet Sharing under the Internet tab in Sharing Prefs.

Wierd.

[MikeD]

We have a problem with an iBook right now that's showing that 169 IP address. What's going on? It worked fine yesterday and now it's "self-assigned" (The IP). What's going on here?

Mike

Originally posted by Macpilot:
Hmmmm...

I don't think that setting would affect your ability to surf off the other machine's internet connection. That service, Personal Web Sharing, is only for stuff in the other machines's Sites folder.

I am having a problem right now that is similar, but enabling that service did nothing for me. You should not have to enable any of those services to use the software base station feature of Jag. You should only have to turn on Internet Sharing under the Internet tab in Sharing Prefs.

Wierd.