[anandbatra]

Hi,

I recently bought Nokia E50, a Symbian 9.1 3rd edition phone. I read on quite a few sites that I can share my net connection with my mobile through bluetooth by installing Gnubox on my Symbian phone. I referred to a couple of guides. How To Share The Internet Connection With a Nokia 6600 and Sharing an OS X Internet Connection with a Series 60 Phone - rukapedia

I use a PPPOE connection on my Mac Mini that runs Mac OS 10.4.8.

The first step in both guides is to pair my phone with my Mac and set up a serial port. I've done that. However, I just can't connect to the internet from my phone using both the guides.

Method 1 i.e. Sharing an OS X Internet Connection with a Series 60 Phone - rukapedia says that I need to assign a private IP to my phone similar to that of my Mac. However, the difference here is that I use a PPPOE connection and therefore, my Mac's ethernet connection does not have a private IP.

The method also asks to enter the following command in Terminal.

sudo /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/tty.Bt 115200 noauth local passive proxyarp asyncmap 0 silent persist :192.168.1.95

What IP address should I give, to the phone, in my case?

In another step, it says

'Under Options > Advanced settings > Name servers for this connection(on the phone), enter the IP address of your primary name server (i.e. the name server you're using on your Mac)'.

My mac's ethernet PPPoE connection does not have any IP address/name server. What should I do in this case?

Method 2: The Apple Script that is attached is faulty.

do shell script "sudo /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/tty.bluetooth-pda-sync-port 115200 noauth local passive proxyarp asyncmap 0 silent persist :10.0.1.201 &" with administrator privileges
do shell script "sudo /usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1"
do shell script "sudo /usr/sbin/natd -same_ports -use_sockets -log -deny_incoming -interface en0"
do shell script "sudo /usr/sbin/natd -same_ports -use_sockets -log -deny_incoming -interface en0"

So, I tried entering the commands in Terminal manually.

sudo /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/tty.bluetooth-pda-sync-port 115200 noauth local passive proxyarp asyncmap 0 silent persist :10.0.1.201

sudo /usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1

sudo /usr/sbin/natd -same_ports -use_sockets -log -deny_incoming -interface en0

I get this error when I pass the above command:

natd: en0: cannot get interface address

Can some one Please help me with this? I only want to know how to get OS X to share the ethernet connection with the phone(/dev/tty.Bt)!

[ghporter]

It sounds like you could save a lot of time by just buying a hammer and hitting yourself on the head now and then. Seriously, this is a very slow method of connecting anything and unless you're doing it for the intellectual exercise, I'd use whatever wired connection your phone has instead of BT.

To address your specific questions, it doesn't matter what address you give it, as long as the phone knows what the address is, because this is a LAN connection (through your Mac) and it's a private address. Give your phone an address to use as its own IP, use that IP as the entry in the Terminal session and it will work. DO use a non-routable address, like a 192.168... or 10.... so nobody can worm their way into your phone.

Your Mac MUST have a "name server," but that's a synonym for "DNS server" so you probably didn't recognize it as such.

With the script commands, the problem looks to me like you don't have an appropriate IP address assigned to the phone. In this case the script commands are using a 10.... address, so the phone needs a compatible address, like 10.0.0.1 or something.

[anandbatra]

Thanks for replying. Yeah, I am doing this out of curosity.

From what I've read on various forums(guides for Xp), I need to set up a proxy on my computer. Is there a proxy app on OS X? Something like this Network Downloads : Proxy /// AnalogX.

[ghporter]

The Internet Connection Sharing IS a proxy of sorts. Running a connection through a Network Address Translation (NAT) stage, which is exactly what ICS does, has the same effect as running through a proxy for most issues. Otherwise, I can't help you out because I don't use anything like a proxy myself.