Airport sharing and network problems

[shagydog]

Hi all

I’m a newbie to the Mac world but I think they are great machines that being said here is my problem:

I have got Airport sharing turned on to Ethernet, and a Pc connected to the Ethernet.
So far so good it works fine my Pc connects to the internet.
What I am trying to do is access from the Pc the workgroup shared files (I have many Pc in my network > workgroup 15 all together) and the only machine I can access is the Mac and the Pc itself. I understand this is because the shared airport is acting as a dhcp and it’s giving out an ip address that is not in the range of my router setup?
If I try to manually enter an ip address to the Ethernet it cuts out the airport connection to the internet so my question is: is there a way around to connect to the other machines in the workgroup with the Pc?

Thanks for your time

Shagydog

 

[Mechcozmo]

If you share an internet connection, the devices you are sharing to are on a different subnet. That is so you reduce the chances of you interfering from the other network.

 

[gr8tfly]

It sounds like you have a wireless router to begin with, but it has no hub/switch.

I think the easiest would be to replace it with one that has a built-in enet switch. Then the PC and the Mac are both connected through a single router.

 

[shagydog]

Is there anyway to bridge 2 connetions with a mac like with windows ? Because i think that would solve my problems.

 

[shagydog]

Hi again

Btw found out how to acesse my shared filles over the network;

For example :

in the browser on the pc type \\192.168.0.100\programs

et voila you should have your shared filles apper

And works fine with the xbox to hehe

Thanks all for your replys