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spinnerlys
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Join Date: Oct 2007
 
2007-10-18, 07:13

Hello everyone.

Long time lurker finally has something to ask.

Yesterday I purchased a new iMac, after my three year old G4 iBook's hard drive failed (and with a lot of screaming too)
to spin up and mentioned iBook only boots via an external hard-drive.

Now I have put the LAN cable into the new shiny toy and am wondering if I can have still access to the internet on my iBook via a Computer-to-Computer Network (via Airport).

The normal networking deal works almost perfectly via Computer-to-Computer network.

iBook: G4 1 GHz, Mac OS 10.4.8
iMac: C2D 2 GHz, Mac OS 10.4.10

Thanks in advance and good day.

gregor
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Paul
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Location: New York City
 
2007-10-18, 08:04

Yes, you can.

On the iMac, go to System Preferences --> Sharing --> Internet --> Share your connection from: [Built-in Ethernet] --> To computers using: [x] Airport --> Airport Options... --> Name your network and add a password if you like --> OK --> Start

Then, from the iBook, select the new wireless network and put in the password if you added one.

It should be fairly simple.

HTH
-Paul

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spinnerlys
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Join Date: Oct 2007
 
2007-10-18, 08:26

Thank You very much.

I would have never thought of that, despite being in the Sharing preference pane for quite some time.

It works like a charm.

Why is it so simple, sometimes?

PS: Even file sharing works (of course only after starting the Personal File Sharing service).
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