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Trying to share internet connection from Powerbook - help!!

ero87

ero87

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Jan 17, 2006
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Hey friends,

I'm renting a house for the week with several friends, and there's only one ethernet port. I figured I could plug one friend's Powerbook G4 into the ethernet, go into Sharing, turn on Internet Sharing, and then nearby computers could borrow the connection - this isn't working. The network doesn't even display on my other friend's powerbook. Any ideas? I'd love to fix this problem, ASAP. The little upwards arrow does not display ontop of the airport icon in the menubar, which I think it's supposed to... what's going wrong?

p.s. I have "Personal Web Sharing" turned on under "Services," still no go...
 

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So, if your going to broadcast from the Ethernet port via the Airport you need to create a ad-hoc peer to peer network for the others to connect to. This is why no one can see anything because you have not made anything. You need to create a network so others can connect. Obviously, the sharing needs to enabled and set to share over the airport.

This is the way I accomplished this in Tiger.

In Leopard it says all you need to do is enable web sharing & internet sharing from Ethernet to Airport. I just tried it and it created the ad-hoc automatically and I was able to see it on my iPhone. So, it should work either way. When all this is applied the signal strength icon in the top left should turn into an arrow with a grayed background pointing upwards.
 

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