Plugging a visiting Mac into my network
- From: Roger Hird <roger.hird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:50:17 +0100
On 28 Jul in comp.sys.mac.misc, Bob Harris
<nospam.News.Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Most likely a DNS problem.
It was!
> SNIP
> In system preferences -> network -> TCP/IP you can manually enter DNS
> values. For a DHCP connection this should not be necessary, but all
> network connections are not created equal :-)
Indeed - DHCP was doing SOMETHING but what exactly wasn't clear
> The first choice for a DNS entry would be the IP address of your
> broadband router.
I used that and it worked beautifully.
> But, But BUT caution her to remove these entries when she returns home,
> or else she could have the same problem in reverse.
She has been warned.
In fact her university IT people had set up her machine to work on their
system and she sort of remembered some of what they did as I followed your
advice. She will go and talk to them on her return.
Very many thanks!
Roger
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