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Post #1 by sinful@pagans.net
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I searched and searched for instructions on how to do this and found nothing. I hope this isn't a repeat of something somebody else has already said, but I would have found it useful.

There are no options.

Well, there are. But they eluded me for so long. The first thing I tried that worked was a Linksys USB adapter connected to my WindowsXP laptop, shared the internet connection, connected a cat5 cable between the two and we were up.

The limitation was that port forwarding didn't seem to work the way they said it would in the documentation. Surprise. And since I'm running Apache, Senmail, UW IMAP, QPopper, SquirrelMail, and QTSS, internet connection sharing was not an option.

Next try, connection bridging with WinXP. This also was rought with problems, but it appears that connecting to the Mac via SMB from Windows before bridging solved my problems. Requires Jaguar obviously, and precludes the laptop from connecting to the internet.

But then I found the ultimate solution. It even works without the laptop in the middle. It's the Linksys WET11 (or Wet Ones . No drivers necessary, just plugs directly into your Mac's Ethernet port.

http://www.linksys.com/Products/pro...rid=22&prid=432

Anyway, I hope someone finds this useful.

Tony
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