Networking a PC and a Mac
 

Hey folks...

I'm trying to get April's laptop PC to connect to her Mac at home. It's an iMac with the latest version of OS X and an airport card. The PC tells me that it's reading the network just fine, but then will not access any internet sites.

I must be missing something incredibly simple...help!!!

Gracias in advance.

under network options for the mac, make sure that "internet sharing" is turned on.

Okay...did that. Still nothing. Should I reboot the Mac?

Edit: oops. Thought you were doing this on the Mac, heh.

On the PC, go to Start, Run, type <code>cmd</code> and click ok to open that up (type <code>command</code> instead if you're using a version of Windows besides Windows 2000 or XP). It will open a black window, in that window type <code>tracert 216.239.39.99</code>. Post the results here. To copy the results, follow these instructions:

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Well, at least we know your internet connection on the Mac is working ;) Do the same thing on the PC with my edited post, but also type <code>ipconfig/all</code> and paste the results here as well.

When I typed in "tracert 216.239.39.99" on the windows laptop, I got the following (I can't paste from windows to here):

Tracing route to 216.239.39.99 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 Destination host unreachable.

Trace complete.

Ok, run the <code>ipconfig/all</code> and give me those results. If you have to, save it on a floppy or burn it to a cd and take it to the Mac and open it up. If you can't do that, tell me the relevant output I need from the <code>ipconfig/all</code>:

IP address
DNS
Gateway

hit ctrl+V to paste

You're missing what sycamore is saying. He's on the Windows PC which has no active internet connection.

this was what i was responding to. in the quick reply box, when you right click, there is no 'paste' option. ctrlV paste works, tho


i only ACT dumb...it's ok, you're new

don't say it.

Hope this is what you're looking for:

Connections-specific DNS suffix: (blank)
Autoconfiguration IP Address: 169.254.220.185
Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway: (blank)

huh. apparently, in IE, there IS a paste option. i use Mozilla at home, and there isn't. learn something everyday.

Need some more information. Are you trying to connect the PC directly to the Mac to share the Internet connection? Or do you have a router? I assume you don't have a router based on what you've stated but I need to ask.

As far as the Mac goes, I'm not too familiar with them, but let me see if I can find something (leaving work now so won't be able to reply for about 30 mins ).