[devilla101]

Hey Guys

I thought everything on a MAC is so simple until I came to this.
I have connected my g4 1Ghz ibook at my workplace which uses WIN NT as a server

I have successfully gained access to folders on the network and drives, but when it came to trying to access the internet I cannot.

I have done the System Preference > Network.
I tried "Assist Me" feature and entered all the correct numbers my IT Admin has given me
IP 192.168.100.49
SUB NET 255.255.255.0
ROUTER 61.95.54.173

But keeps coming up with the message that its "IP and Router Address are Inconsistent with the subnet mask entered"

I have tried "Automatic setting" and still no access to the net

I have access to the local network but not the internet

IT manager has no idea

Please help, I would to see what the ibook can do as a workhorse computer

[tooki]

But... it's right: that IP and router ARE inconsistent with the subnet mask entered. The IP is a private IP, but the router address is a public one.

Most likely, they're mistakenly giving people the router's public address when they should be giving you its private IP. Based on the subnet mask, the router's private IP is probably 192.168.100.1. Try entering that as the router address and see if you can access the Internet that way. (It won't give you the error message about inconsistency, because my suggested settings are consistent.)

tooki

[ghporter]

To amplify what Tooki said, your LAN IP address is on a subnet we'll call 192.168.100.x. Your subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, which means that in order for your machine to connect to anything the first three groups in the IP address of what you want to connect with must match (they must also be on the 192.168.100.x subnet).

Your original router IP was the WAN (or Internet) IP address of your NT Server. Obviously this isn't the right address because it's nowhere near the 192.168.100.x subnet. It's also on the "wrong side" of the NT Server, in that you need to connect with your LAN to your local gateway-the NT Server. That server's LAN IP address is most likely going to be 192.168.100.1.

It's like this:

LAN SIDE...............................WAN SIDE

192.168.100.x |NT Server| 61.95.54.x ---> Internet
All local
computers