Sharing Internet Not Working

[mac man 007]

Hi all,

I have updated to 10.6.5 and now my imac which shares my ethernet internet connection to my other macs and windows computers has now stopped working and i cannot think of any way to try and fix it.

I Really need help

Mac Man 007

 

[Bernard SG]

Not an uncommon occurrence when you update your system.
My recommendation would be to scrap your existing AirPort network and create a new one from scratch, it's not much of a hassle.
If you have several clients on your network, I'd warmly encourage you to get an AirPort Express. Using a Mac as base-station works well most of the time but it's not 100% seamless.
And AirTunes is absolutely kewl.

 

[mac man 007]

Sorry to sound dumb, but how do i create a new network ?

 

[Bernard SG]

Well, I'm not on Mac right now, so I won't be able to describe the process accurately, sorry.
It's not complicated anyway, don't worry. If I remember well, after you turn AirPort off from the little icon on the menu bar, that menu should show a "Create New Network" option. But before that, disable your Internet Sharing.
Once the new network is up, then re-enable the sharing.
If that doesn't work, then there might be other issues arising from the OS X upgrade process.

 

[mac man 007]

Thanks for your help but this hasn't fixed my problem, it just randomly flickers from sharing to airport's inactive state i think it is a problem with OSX. I Hope they fix this soon, i really need my sharing

 

[Bernard SG]

Does file and/or printer sharing work from the iMac you use as base station?
Also, did you update from "Software Update" or downloaded the Combo Update from Apple's website?

 

[MacHamster68]

depending how you share
but i have the same problem my iMac cant communicate with the other mac's in my network , because in osx snow leopard apple talk does not exist any more , the best feature of all scraped in favor for windows users , because windows doesnt support apple talk , now you would need to share using this tcp/ip stuff or how thats called , thats why i run on my intel iMac a second partition with osx tiger because there apple talk still works and at least my core duo imac is still able to boot osx tiger , have to reboot for sharing ,but thats ok for me as apple talk is so much more comfortable to use

 

[mac man 007]

Does file and/or printer sharing work from the iMac you use as base station?
Also, did you update from "Software Update" or downloaded the Combo Update from Apple's website?

I did the update from software update and the file or printer sharing doesn't work as it wont let it share anything ... This is really annoying