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Sharing airport connection through ethernet
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I need to temporarily share a connection from a G4 tower to an iMac both running X.3. The G4 tower gets its board band from an 802.11b network through its airport card. I know there is a way to hook an ethernet cable from the G4 to the iMac get it to share the broadband. So far all my attempts to do it haven't worked so I was hoping that someone could help me get it right. System Preferences->Sharing->Internet is not working. And I have tried a few cross-over and straight through cables all with the same resutlt.
Also, I was wondering if using an Asante hub with an uplink port would somehow make the process easier than hooking the two computers directly together.
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System Prefs -> Sharing -> Internet is the way to do it. Something else must be interfering. Do you have the firewall turned on? Try turning it off.
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Originally posted by Langdon:
I need to temporarily share a connection from a G4 tower to an iMac both running X.3. The G4 tower gets its board band from an 802.11b network through its airport card. I know there is a way to hook an ethernet cable from the G4 to the iMac get it to share the broadband. So far all my attempts to do it haven't worked so I was hoping that someone could help me get it right. System Preferences->Sharing->Internet is not working. And I have tried a few cross-over and straight through cables all with the same resutlt.
Also, I was wondering if using an Asante hub with an uplink port would somehow make the process easier than hooking the two computers directly together.
Hooking them directly together is the easiest. You need to tell the machine you are sharing the Airport connection. Also, both machines need to be set to DHCP on the ethernet.
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Originally posted by Detrius:
Hooking them directly together is the easiest. You need to tell the machine you are sharing the Airport connection. Also, both machines need to be set to DHCP on the ethernet.
Easiest, yes but it also doesn't work. There is a reproducable problem with doing sharing through ethernet. I had a few people on Ars who also had the same problem when they tried it for me and the Apple forums are littered with the same issue. Apple needs to get a fix for it.
I ended up using IP through Firewire and it works without any problems.
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