Hey all,
I'm going to college soon, and I plan on networking my PC/laptop via firewire for file-sharing. Wireless, routers, and switches are out of the question--not allowed by school policy...if you're caught violating, you lose internet access...so I'll be a good child and follow directions.
Anyway, I got file-share working...that was easy. I just plugged the firewire cables in (via PCMCIA on my T42 and Audigy on the PC), and set the PC to 192.168.1.1 and laptop to 192.168.1.2, subnet 255.255.255.0. This is very good...as it's exactly what I need for college.
However, while I'm still at home, I would like to run internet sharing over the fireiwre connection too. There's no wireless at home, and I don't have another ethernet cable long enough to reach our router.
Right now, the PC is plugged into the network. Previously, for file-share, I had the firewire network & ethernet network separated on the PC. I thought that I should create a 'network bridge' to gain internet access & file-share w/all the other machines on my home network, right? Well, sort of. The only way I could get the network bridge thing to work is if I set it AND the laptop's firewire connection to "auto obtain IP."
In that situation, I can file-share with any computer on my network, and I get internet...but only for 10 minutes. Then it stops (but file-share stays up). What the heck? lol
Also...when I set the laptop to auto-obtain IP, does the laptop do file-sharing with the PC through the router? Like if I transfer FileA from laptop to PC, in the first situation, it'd go straight from laptop->PC. With the second situation, is it going laptop->PC->router->PC?
But yeah, my biggest question is how to get internet sharing to work. Are there windows services I'm supposed to enable? Other networking options? bleegh!
Thanks in advance,
-Eric
Edit: If I didnt mention earlier, the home network is set up w/a 4 port router; it networks 3 PCs together. (and now a laptop...well, sort of...hence the problem)
I'm going to college soon, and I plan on networking my PC/laptop via firewire for file-sharing. Wireless, routers, and switches are out of the question--not allowed by school policy...if you're caught violating, you lose internet access...so I'll be a good child and follow directions.
Anyway, I got file-share working...that was easy. I just plugged the firewire cables in (via PCMCIA on my T42 and Audigy on the PC), and set the PC to 192.168.1.1 and laptop to 192.168.1.2, subnet 255.255.255.0. This is very good...as it's exactly what I need for college.
However, while I'm still at home, I would like to run internet sharing over the fireiwre connection too. There's no wireless at home, and I don't have another ethernet cable long enough to reach our router.
Right now, the PC is plugged into the network. Previously, for file-share, I had the firewire network & ethernet network separated on the PC. I thought that I should create a 'network bridge' to gain internet access & file-share w/all the other machines on my home network, right? Well, sort of. The only way I could get the network bridge thing to work is if I set it AND the laptop's firewire connection to "auto obtain IP."
In that situation, I can file-share with any computer on my network, and I get internet...but only for 10 minutes. Then it stops (but file-share stays up). What the heck? lol
Also...when I set the laptop to auto-obtain IP, does the laptop do file-sharing with the PC through the router? Like if I transfer FileA from laptop to PC, in the first situation, it'd go straight from laptop->PC. With the second situation, is it going laptop->PC->router->PC?
But yeah, my biggest question is how to get internet sharing to work. Are there windows services I'm supposed to enable? Other networking options? bleegh!
Thanks in advance,
-Eric
Edit: If I didnt mention earlier, the home network is set up w/a 4 port router; it networks 3 PCs together. (and now a laptop...well, sort of...hence the problem)
