Re: Plugging a visiting Mac into my network

In message of 28 Jul, Roger Hird <roger.hird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I posted this message on c.s.mac.misc - but I thought I'd try
> c.s.a.networking too. apologies if it is of-topic.
>
> I've an academic friend (a Mac user) visiting from Japan.
>
> She wants to get access to the internet.
>
> I have a small network - a broadband router with four ports, two used by
> my two machines (An elderly Acorn running RISC OS and a PC running WinXP
> Professional).
>
> When my PC using friends stay they just plug a network cable into port 3
> of the router, fire their browser and all works.
>
> My Mac using friend plugs the network cable into port 3 - and her browser
> (Safari) says that it can't find any of the websites she wants to use (I
> think the message is something like "Can't find www.whatever on this
> server").
>
> I see from her machine that the ethernet card IS connected to the
> internet, with an IP address allocated by (I assume) DHCP.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what we are failing to do, please?
>

If you have DCHP (is it?) and the Mac is set to that as well, then it is
easy, just plug the Mac in to the network. But it sounds as if you
don't have this.

I have a Mac on my ethernet network and all I had to do for internet
access was to set the Mac's network ID to one that is congruent with the
router's network. If they have Tiger (Mac OS 1.4.x) this is done
through the Apple menu > System Preferences > Network . (It was a bit
more complicated to set up file sharing between Mac and RISC OS and
not all problems have been resolved.)

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