Mac OS X sharing in Wingate 5

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Mac OS X sharing in Wingate 5

Postby Sergio Damasceno » Oct 03 03 6:21 am

I used to be able to share my cable modem with a Mac laptop (Win 4.x and OS 8.x) but since I have upgraded to Win XP and OS X on the Mac I have not been able to make it work.
I admit that it was some time ao that I had that system working and for some time I have not used it. I only recently added another PC so I reinstalled Wingate (upgraded to 5) and then tryed to get the Mac to work via the 3Com hub. No success. My daughter, the Mac user is giving me no end of hell for breaking her Internet connection. Before the addition of the new PC (Mom's computer) the Mac would simply connect to the hub and bingo! everything worked fine.
Is there any help out there?
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Postby adrien » Oct 03 03 5:14 pm

Was the MAC using DHCP to get an IP address? Was this from WinGate?

How do you connect to the Internet?
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Sharing with Mac OS X

Postby Sergio Damasceno » Oct 04 03 6:08 am

At first I tried DHCP only.
Then I tried DHCP and manually (one of the choices).
Then I tried manually only.
When on manually the Mac was assigned 192.168.0.3 and the router 192.168.0.1
do I need to change other settings such as Proxies, AppleTalk or PPPoE? If so to what?
Thank you for your help
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Postby adrien » Oct 04 03 6:14 am

the only thing the mac should need in terms of configuration parameters would be:

a) IP address
b) default gateway (should be IP of WinGate machine)
c) DNS server (should be IP of WinGate machine)

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Postby Sergio Damasceno » Oct 04 03 6:25 am

I could not find a place to enter the default gateway, everything else was set accordingly.
The only way I've been testing this is by trying to open Ineternet Explorer and getting the error message:
"the specified server could not be found"
Is there another way to test that does not use IE? It could be that the problem lies there instead.
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Postby adrien » Oct 04 03 6:28 am

"the specified server could not be found" indicates an issue with DNS (assuming that you spelled the name correctly and that it exists).

Do you see the DNS requests showing up in the history or activity window in GateKeeper?

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Postby Sergio Damasceno » Oct 04 03 6:47 am

No. I do not. I do see my wife's activity accessing the Internet from her computer (192.168.0.2)
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Postby adrien » Oct 04 03 7:10 am

if you don't see the DNS lookups, that means that either your DNS server is not running (unlikely if your wife's computer works) or more likely the mac client's DNS settings are not working.

Can you recheck them?

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Postby Sergio Damasceno » Oct 04 03 7:19 am

Here's what I see when I open the Network window in the TCP/IP tab:
Configure: Manually
IP Address: 192.168.0.4
DNS Servers: 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Router: 192.168.0.1
Search Domains (Optional): blank
Ethernet Address: 00:30:65:c5:ac:80

If the settings are correct how do I check them physically so that I know it works?
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Postby adrien » Oct 04 03 7:23 am

the settings look correct. That "router" parameter is the default gateway I was talking about before.

Do you have a command shell on the Mac? Can you run programs like Nslookup?

Hmmmm... sounds like you need some sort of packet sniffer to see what is going on.

If you are using WinGate 5.0.8, you can go into GateKeeper, into the ENS tab, under port security, you can go to "Lan connections to this PC" and "UDP" then add an entry for port 53, allow, but notify accesses.

Then you should see the DNS requests showing up in the firewall tab in GateKeeper if the Mac is sending any.

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Postby Sergio Damasceno » Oct 04 03 7:39 am

I'm using Ver 5.07 but I think I managed to set what you ask (not sure)
Should I update?
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Postby adrien » Oct 04 03 7:49 am

you would need to to do that test, since that support (even though it looks like it) was not implemented correctly in 5.0.7

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Postby Sergio Damasceno » Oct 04 03 7:51 am

I will do that right now and get back to you.
Thanks.
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Postby Sergio Damasceno » Oct 04 03 8:13 am

What do I download? Wingate or Winroute?
There's been a change or what?
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Postby Sergio Damasceno » Oct 04 03 8:51 am

Can you direct me to where I can download Wingate Ver 5.08? I don't seem to find one anywhere at QBIK.
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Postby adrien » Oct 04 03 9:46 am

www.wingate.com has been moved to our server at blind.qbik.com

however, if your DNS has not been updated, then you might have been redirected to deerfield.com, who now sell the competing product WinRoute

if this happens try www.netpatrol.com

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Postby Sergio Damasceno » Oct 04 03 11:11 am

I finally found it. i was being rerouted to whatever.
I have upgraded.
I did not see a thing.
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Postby adrien » Oct 04 03 12:12 pm

that means that even though your MAC is set to use WinGate as a DNS server, it is not actually for some reason or another, sending it any requests.

Need to probably go back to basics a bit... can the mac and your XP machine ping each other by IP address?

I am not familiar with Mac OSX - do you know how to print out the route table, if so would you be able to post it here?

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