My wife is doing a translation project for a company in Virginia that uses only Mac’s. They shipped us one with all their software installed and and want us to email files to them…but our PC and modem are, of course, Windows-based.
When I pointed this out to them, they said the simplest way would be to use a “crossover Ethernet cable” and an Ethernet NIC for our PC, both of which they then sent me. Now I’m supposed to configure the PC for Internet Connection Sharing and the Mac for DHCP using the TCP/IP control panel and, voila! I can send email from the Mac through the Internet connection on the PC.
OK, I did all that. I even downloaded and installed the NIC driver that they neglected to send.
It doesn’t work. The error message I get on the Mac screen says: “Error involving domain name system - 3162; The server is not responding.”
I’m pretty sure it has to do with IP addresses not specified correctly but I can’t get it sorted out. I’ve googled and get nothing but the generalities I’ve already seen.
That’s Windows ME on the PC and OS9 on the Mac.
Any concrete, spelled-out directions would be most sincerely appreciated.
If not many answers are provided here, I would suggest trying the forums at http://www.macfixitforums.com - they have an amazingly comprehensive and large archive, including this forum dedicated to networking and cross platform issues.
It’s much easier to run with static IP addresses on the local network (PC to Mac). When you enable connection sharing on the PC, it’s going to automatically make the local ethernet connection address 192.168.0.1. Configure the Mac for an IP address of 192.168.0.2 with a network mask of 255.255.255.0 and a gateway of 192.168.0.1 (since the PC is the gateway, in this case). You will also have to enter the DNS server addresses supplied by your ISP.
You don’t want the Mac to try and get an IP address from the host, because in this case it’s going to ask for an IP address from the PC, which isn’t set up to give it one. The Mac is on a local network that only goes between itself and the PC, so it doesn’t care that your ISP wants to give you an address. All the Mac cares about is that the gateway address that the Mac has matches the PC’s address, otherwise the Mac won’t know how to get to the internet. The PC then gets the IP address from your ISP and all is well.
Make sure you have the little box checked for internet connection sharing under the network properties of your internet connection on the ME machine.