The Mac is connected to DSL. I want to be able to connect the PC to the internet through that DSL. The Mac has an airport card, and the PC has a wireless connection. The PC reads the Mac's network, but will not allow me to connect to any website. I've turned on Internet sharing, Windows sharing, etc. on the Mac. I'm not sure what else to do on the PC.

Hope that helps.

How can you tell the PC reads the Mac's network? If you're returning a 169.x.x.x IP (which is almost always an IP that the computer assigns to itself when it can't pull one via DHCP), it sounds to me like it isn't.

The PC shows the wireless icon, along with the name of the Mac network, the speed of the connection and the signal strength.

Can you double click that, click on the support tab, and tell me the IP address/gateway it shows? Also, go into the Control Panel, then Network Connections. In there you should have a Local Area Connection and a Wireless Network Connection Disable the Local Area Connection and try to run that tracert command again.

IP address is 192.168.1.64

The Local Area Connection is already disabled.

Okay...what is a base station? I didn't think one was needed because we have the airport card.

Pretty sure you don't need one since the Mac is acting as the base station. Try: <code>ping 192.168.1.1</code> on the PC.

I quit for the night before seeing that last post. I told April to call Apple and/or Dell tomorrow to see if they can help her figure out what's wrong.

My suspicion is that it's something on the Mac side, because the PC easily connects to other PC networks, such as my own. It's probably something incredibly stupid that I didn't do...we'll see.

Thanks for your help, laebedahs!

You'll most likely -- so I've read -- get a standard response from Apple: "We don't support that", since you're trying to use non-Apple hardware (Mac-PC wireless, that is) with your Mac.

A little different PC/Mac networking question:

I have an iMac running OS 9.2.2 and a PC running 98SE. The two are sharing a DSL connection via a new 802.11g router. If I want the Mac to be able to see, copy and/or open files on the PC (say, accessing a file containing several GBs of music files), what are the less-to-medium painful ways of setting this up?

I've figured out Web Sharing to let the PC access the Mac's files, but I'd like to make it go the other way.

A program called "Dave" is the easiest way, but it costs money.

Best free solution would probably be running a WebDAV server (no relation to Dave) on the PC. Apache will do.

Dave.

Dave (www.thursby.com) costs money. However, it is hands-down the best third party software, IMHO, for networking a PC to a Mac and vice versa.

If you were running Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 Server, you can turn on "Services for Macintosh" and share out your volumes that way.

Heck, some old NAS boxes even do that if they have AFP support.

Mitch

WarFTP Daemon 1.6 on the PC, Interarchy 6.3 on the Mac, and I have PC -> Mac file access.

VSP,

And the best part is that both are free :).

Mitch