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Kalisperas

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I'm having a bit of a problem. I'm trying to set up my machine (running WinXP Home) to share it's internet connection with an iMac (OS 9.1). I thought my problems would be getting the two machines to talk, but I can't even get that far. When I plug the ethernet cable in, my Windows box keeps flashing the message "A Network Cable is Unplgged" in that little yellow message bubble in the corner. I checked my Network Connections window, and under "LAN or High-Speed Internet" it kept flashing between the unplugged message and the "Ready" status (or whatever it says when it's working). My first thought is that it's my cable. Now, I know this is probably a no-no, but the cable wasn't long enough, so I cut it and spliced in a couple lengths of telephone cable. I made sure to do a good splicing job, so there's no shorts or anything like that. And after the first try, I thought "Silly me, that should be crossover!", so I opened it up and re-wired it as a crossover (yes, I'm certain I wired it correctly. Double and triple checked). Same exact thing happened. Should I perhaps just bite the bullet and buy a 50ft. length of real crossover cable? Do I need a crossover to go from PC to Mac?

Any ideas?

As a side note, will Windows XP built-in internet sharing work with a Mac running OS 9.1? A fairly network-saavy friend of mine assured me it would, but I seem to recall reading somewhere that I'd need a third party application like WinGate. Anyone know about this?
 
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Kalisperas

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Hehe...I take it from your reply that cat5 cable is something not to be sliced 'n' spliced at all. Now why should it be any different than splicing phone line, coaxial or A/V cables? Essentially the line in the middle is just a conductive strand to get a signal from one pin to another, is physically splicing another line in there really that different from putting a hub between two cables? Either way the strand is broken, and the signal has to conduct through another wire on the way to it's destination. Oh well, doesn't really matter, if it doesn't work it doesn't work. More importantly, assuming my "Cable Unplugged" message flashing on and off is caused entirely by my makeshift cable (at a steady rate, by the way, on for a couple seconds, then off for a couple, repeatedly), will I be able to share my internet connection on my OS 9.1 iMac using Windows XP built-in internet sharing, or will I need a third party app?
 
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Grminalac

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Yeah the internet sharing should work.
Splicing the cables together would have worked had you spliced together two of the same cables. Telephone wire is not cat5.
 
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