[minsky]

Hello Everyone:

The situation: Airport Extreme Basestation's LAN port is connected with an ethernet cable to my Windows XP machine [client], and the iBook[panther OS X] is connected via wireless connection to the basestation, it is the server. The iBook is connected to the Internet just fine. The Basestation dials up using PPP.

The problem: The Windows machine cannot connect to internet via LAN from the Airport Extreme Basestation and I do not see the Windows machine anywhere on the mac for file sharing between both computers.


1.Windows sharing is enabled on the iBook.

2. Sharing is enabled on the PC. [By the way the windows machine isn't wireless.]

3. I tried Go: Connect to Server, and typed in the name of the Windows workgroup, and got this error message:
the finder cannot complete the operation because some data in smb://myworkgroupname/ could not be read or written.

4. Firewall is off on the Windows XP.

5. The IP on the XP machine is set to 192.168.0.4.


Solution anyone?

[Krusty]

Sounds like your network settings on the XP box -- you can't connect to the internet nor can the iBook see the XP box, right ??

You probably need to go through XP's little connection wizard. You know that once you are downstream of a router such as an airport base station (or any router), you need to turn off any manual connection settings for the XP box and set yourself up as a simple DHCP client -- passively accepting whatever the router feeds down to you.

I set my roommate's XP box up very simply (its been a while now) -- I think the tricky part for you is that you'll have to make choices as though you are on a broadband connection rather than dial-up because that's what XP assumes you will be using if you are a client to a router. (eg. at some point in the wizard, you'll have to choose "Broadband" to get the appropriate choices afterwards .. even though you aren't using broadband. I guess they never considered the possibility that someone would actually try to share a 56k dial-in connection.)