Internet Sharing through a proxy help.

[jive]

I have my iMac connected to the Campus Network. It needs to go through proxy port (8080 if it matters). This is all working perfectly.


Now, how do I sort out my MBP's wireless so I can use Internet Sharing here? I had it working at home (no proxies) fine and here I can connect to my iMac but not the internet through my iMac. There must be a way of doing this? They have a network set up between them that is working.


How do I fix this? I get the feeling it's probably quite easy.

 

[Queso]

I would turn the Internet Sharing on the iMac on, but copy the settings for proxy and DNS from the iMac onto the laptop, so that rather than acting as a proxy, the iMac becomes a router.

 

[jive]

Where about are these DNS numbers? I can't find any. Cheers for the help btw :]

 

[Queso]

Open the terminal on the iMac and type "cat /etc/resolv.conf"

Sorry about the Unix answer, but not sure how to do it in the GUI

 

[jive]

Allans-iMac:~ allancorbett$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain rgu.ac.uk
search rgu.ac.uk
nameserver 193.63.235.1
nameserver 193.63.232.27
Allans-iMac:~ allancorbett$

Hmm? What do I copy over?

 

[Queso]

Put

193.63.235.1
193.63.232.27

into the DNS Servers box, and

rgu.ac.uk

into the search domains box in your laptop's TCP/IP settings. Leave the rest of that panel as automatic, but copy the proxy settings in as well. The MacBook will then route traffic through the iMac but be speaking directly to your Uni's servers rather than having the iMac relay the requests.

 

[jive]

Thanks so much! Cheers :]