WinXP+wingate+Mac = no i-net sharing ?!?

[Clemenules]

I consider myself to be ok when handling pc problems but this whole networking thing has me completely stumped...

I'm trying to share the internet connection I have on my Windows xp pc with a macintosh laptop. For this purpose I installed the latest Wingate with ENS enabled and uninstalled ZoneAlarm (to make sure it would not interfere with WinGate).

LAN- card is set up to auto-acquire IP adress etc., then to Wingate > DHCP > fully automatic. Then to the Mac-Laptop > connect with a crossed cable > set up a new ethernet connection > to acquire IP etc. from a DHCP server and voila it gets a nice number. I verify our connection by pinging this IP from the XP PC and it gets a response. The Mac shows up in my microsoft-network environment and vice versa, so far so good......

But whatever I try there's no internet connection on the Mac i.e. no pages can be openend (and yes wingate is configged to use my dial up modem and was connected at the time). I've played around with some other settings (manually setting my lan card to 192.168.0.1 and the mac to 192.168.0.2, subnet 255.255.255.0) and whatever I do I can ping the Mac but it just won't use the internet... The bindings tab of the DHCP servives menu is empty btw and it keeps saying that the DHCP server will not function if I don't bind it to anything - but yet it does give the mac an IP addess. What am I supposed to bind it to if it stays empty or am I barking up the wrong tree here??

Anyway.... Afaik I'm doing exactly as it says in the manual but it's NOT WORKING. What am I missing here? Please enlighten me as we've been busy with this for a couple of nights now and it's driving me up the wall....

[Pascal]

If you have them configured with static IP addresses at the moment, try making the MACs default gateway the static IP of the server. Set it's DNS Server to the same. You should find that in TCP/IP config, but I'm not 100% sure where that is on a MAC.

If you have DHCP, stop the WG Engine and assign a static IP address to your internal network card in the server. Then restart WG and let the MAC discover its IP via DHCP.

[Clemenules]

?!? I don't get it but I did as per your advice (which I think is what I tried before) but now.. it's working! Thx voor the help, now to get some file sharing going...