Net<dialup>XP<wireless>OSX

apfirth · 11-11-2005, 10:36 PM

Hey

I use XP Pro 2002 SP2 for internet dialup on a toshiba laptop. Dialup net is all good. The laptop has a wireless card installed which worked for wireless network and internet at the place which employs me...

I bought a macmini fully loaded with wireless (airport) etc and upgraded from OS X 10.4.2 to 10.4.3

I thought I should be able to fairly easily:

A) Get bidirectional, wireless sharing toshiba XP <-> mac OS X
B) Share my XP dialup, internet connection wirelessly with my Mac.

More fool me.

I enabled file and internet sharing on XP. Turned on filesharing and windows sharing on the mac, set up an adhoc WEP network on the mac... connected XP to the wireless network... and began a decent into madness

I initially and intermittantly achieved both of A & B with the Mac IP set using DCHP but lost connectivity, could not replicate and currently can do neither. I can't even ping either machine from the other. I think I've screwed up the IP settings. I'm getting i/o errors (-36) and no route to host errors from the mac and invalid share messages from XP.

Can anyone broadly outline what IP settings and services should be enabled on the two machines?? Which of XP/Tiger should be using DHCP? I'm confused.

XP reports a working wireless connection--but nothing works! I've tried restarts, wireless connection "repairs", power cycling the mac airport card etc. To make things simpler I removed the XP machine from a domain it had been part of (can't restore this... my work sysadmin will just *looove* me.) It's now configured with a computer name and workgroup name only...

Here's the current setup
on XP
connected, shared, firewalled, software modem
PPP IP (dynamic) 203.184.32.11 sub 255.255.255.0

wireless card, firewalled, connected
IP 169.254.14.225 sub 255.255.0.0

on OS X 10.4.3 (DHCP)
airport IP 169.254.176.22 sub 255.255.0.0

From the mac I can ping localhost and the airport. I can't ping the XP wireless card from XP... Do I need to add a "bridge" within XP?

Any ideas? Thanks for at least reading...

-Adrian

apfirth · 11-17-2005, 02:11 AM

Gave up on wireless. Got Internet<dialup>XP<cable>Mac going by plugging in a cable and manually setting IPs...

XP ethernet to
192.168.0.1 sub 255.255.255.0
Mac ethernet to
"use DHCP with manual IP" 192.168.0.2 sub 255.255.255.0 router 192.168.0.1

Got internet sharing and bidirectional browsing okay.

I'm guessing I should just try to replicate this setup using the wireless connections somehow... I really just want a wireless link at present.

11-11-2005, 10:36 PM	#1 (permalink)
apfirth Registered User Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 2 OS: XP/OS X 10.4.3	Net<dialup>XP<wireless>OSX Hey I use XP Pro 2002 SP2 for internet dialup on a toshiba laptop. Dialup net is all good. The laptop has a wireless card installed which worked for wireless network and internet at the place which employs me... I bought a macmini fully loaded with wireless (airport) etc and upgraded from OS X 10.4.2 to 10.4.3 I thought I should be able to fairly easily: A) Get bidirectional, wireless sharing toshiba XP <-> mac OS X B) Share my XP dialup, internet connection wirelessly with my Mac. More fool me. I enabled file and internet sharing on XP. Turned on filesharing and windows sharing on the mac, set up an adhoc WEP network on the mac... connected XP to the wireless network... and began a decent into madness I initially and intermittantly achieved both of A & B with the Mac IP set using DCHP but lost connectivity, could not replicate and currently can do neither. I can't even ping either machine from the other. I think I've screwed up the IP settings. I'm getting i/o errors (-36) and no route to host errors from the mac and invalid share messages from XP. Can anyone broadly outline what IP settings and services should be enabled on the two machines?? Which of XP/Tiger should be using DHCP? I'm confused. XP reports a working wireless connection--but nothing works! I've tried restarts, wireless connection "repairs", power cycling the mac airport card etc. To make things simpler I removed the XP machine from a domain it had been part of (can't restore this... my work sysadmin will just looove me.) It's now configured with a computer name and workgroup name only... Here's the current setup on XP connected, shared, firewalled, software modem PPP IP (dynamic) 203.184.32.11 sub 255.255.255.0 wireless card, firewalled, connected IP 169.254.14.225 sub 255.255.0.0 on OS X 10.4.3 (DHCP) airport IP 169.254.176.22 sub 255.255.0.0 From the mac I can ping localhost and the airport. I can't ping the XP wireless card from XP... Do I need to add a "bridge" within XP? Any ideas? Thanks for at least reading... -Adrian

11-17-2005, 02:11 AM	#2 (permalink)
apfirth Registered User Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 2 OS: XP/OS X 10.4.3	Update Gave up on wireless. Got Internet<dialup>XP<cable>Mac going by plugging in a cable and manually setting IPs... XP ethernet to 192.168.0.1 sub 255.255.255.0 Mac ethernet to "use DHCP with manual IP" 192.168.0.2 sub 255.255.255.0 router 192.168.0.1 Got internet sharing and bidirectional browsing okay. I'm guessing I should just try to replicate this setup using the wireless connections somehow... I really just want a wireless link at present.