Tutorial: Mac Internet Sharing (with Xbox 360)
A very hidden and somewhat unused feature of Mac OS X is the internet sharing application which can be found in System Preferences > Sharing > Internet Sharing. This feature is very basic and easy to setup but it allows you to share the incoming internet connection on your Mac with other computers in your vicinity. You can even turn your Mac into a wireless hub using this feature. We’ll help show you how to set this up properly in this guide, along with a step by step tutorial of how to use your Mac’s internet connection in order to get your Xbox 360 online without having to purchase a wireless adapter.
The first step is getting familiar with Internet Sharing. As mentioned above, you need to navigate to System Preferences > Sharing > Internet Sharing (which is an option listed on the left). Once on the Internet Sharing option page, you need to setup exactly what you want to do before you proceed to turn it on. As you can see, you need to select where you want the shared connection to come from and then where you are going to output it. So, if you want to turn your Mac into a wireless hub, you would select “Share your connection from: Ethernet”…”To computer using: Airport”. You can mess around with any configuration here including Airport to Ethernet, Bluetooth to Ethernet, etc. In order to enable it, you must click the check box next to internet sharing. You can now turn your Mac into any sort of internet hub that you want it to be. This works great when you are somewhere such as a hotel which might only have one Ethernet plug but you have 4 laptops. You can create a wireless hub for everyone else in the room to connect to.
One of my favorite uses for this feature is sharing my MacBook’s Airport connection with my Xbox 360 through an Ethernet connection. I have been doing this for years, and it has saved me the $100 I would have had to spend on a wireless adapter for my 360. Here is a step by step guide on how to setup your Xbox 360 to share an internet connection with your Mac:
1. Enable internet sharing as described above in System Preferences. You will want to select sharing from Airport to Ethernet.
2. Connect your Mac to your Xbox 360 using an Ethernet cable.
3. Open up Terminal on your Mac by going to Applications > Utilities.
4. In terminal type “ifconfig en0″ (that is a zero)
5. In the terminal screen, you need to look for the line which displays as “inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx”. Write this number down. For example, mine is currently 192.168.2.1
6. Also get the IP Address of your wireless router. This can be found in System Preferences > Network> Select Airport > Advanced> TCP/IP Tab > Router. Write this number down. Mine was 10.0.1.1
7. Start your Xbox and get to the Network Settings menu. You will now have to put some numbers in manually…
8. For IP Address you need to enter the inet number you found in your terminal but with the last number being 1 digit higher. For instance, mine would be 192.168.2.2
9. For Subnet, enter 255.255.255.0
10. For Router/Gateway enter the inet number from earlier. Mine was 192.168.2.1
11. For DNS (both primary and secondary) enter the IP of your router. Mine was 10.0.1.1
12. You need to leave PPPoE and advanced settings blank (default was off and automatic).
13. Test the connection and enjoy having a shared internet connection to your Xbox from your Mac.
If you need any help with this, please leave a comment and I’ll get back to you.
Also, do not forget to set the correct ports for forwarding in your internet gateway for the 360’s IP address. Otherwise you’ll be working with a STRICT NAT…
Haven’t tried this method, but it sounds like it should work. I’ll check into configuring Mac OS X IPtables.
when i try to connect to xbox live, network connects, but internet fails. i know i’ve done all steps right, and when my ethernet cable is connected to my mac, i can not use my internet, though it says it’s connected. any suggestions?
I’m the exact same problem as the above user (lui)
Any fixes?
This works on my MacBook running 10.5.6 and my XBOX 360 with NXE update installed.
You must first go into System Preferences > Sharing and enable internet sharing.
Then, if you want to, disable your firewall (System Preferences > Security > Firewall). If my firewall was not disable XBox Live gave me a NAT error, but still let me connect.
Network Settings:
Manual IP/Manual DNS
IP Address: 192.168.2.2*
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.2.1*
Primary DNS: 192.168.2.1**
Secondary DNS: 192.168.2.1**
*Run “ifconfig en0″ in the Terminal, use the IP address returned after “inet”. I’ve been told that it’s always 192.168.2.1, but I’m not sure. For “IP Address”, add 1 to this number, for “Gateway”, use the number.
** This is the same number returned using “ifconfig en0″. Others have said to use the DNS of the ISP or the router, this has never worked for me. Instead, using the IP of the Mac did.
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ok wen i type “ifconfig en0″ in the Terminal, I get this:
en0: flags=8863 mtu 1500
ether 00:23:df:7b:58:92
media: autoselect status: inactive
supported media: none autoselect 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX 100baseTX 100baseTX 100baseTX 1000baseT 1000baseT 1000baseT
It doest say inet anywhere, and I don’t see anything that looks like an IP address, if thats wat we’re looking for. I’m not sure why. I am using the MacBook OS X Version 10.5.6 if that matters at all.
does anyone think this can be done using an ethernet connection from the modem to the computer, and another from the computer to the xbox? cause i have the regular ethernet plug on my computer and i have an extra usb ethernet adapter from another computer.
this worked for me for about a week and then all the sudden it says my pc cannot be found. shows the network is fine but the internet is a no go
How can I share my printer with a laptop? I saw it in the system preferences, but don’t know how it works.
jim; i’ve tried that before, it doesn’t work, not with your explenation either. if i have to use my DNS or ISP or router, where can i get those? complete data n00b in those arias
When I try connecting to xbox live it says my dns server can’t resolve the xbox live or xbox.com servers
Which ports do you forward, or how do you find out your xbox 360’s ip address to forward so you dont have a ’strick NAT’?
It says that mt MTU failed how do i fix this
I got it to work for the most part, but it says on the Xbox my NAT type is moderate, how do i get that to open?
has anyone found a fix to the problem that lui and alex had?
“when i try to connect to xbox live, network connects, but internet fails. i know i’ve done all steps right, and when my ethernet cable is connected to my mac, i can not use my internet, though it says it’s connected. any suggestions?”
I don’t have a problem using the internet on my mac tho, i hate how microsoft has to have such strict thing for XBL i rember the old xbox had a lot of problems trying to connect arugh it’s anoying
i have found a solution although i still have that restricted NAT error
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071223001432304&query=xbox%2B360
i followed the steps from the link above and not only didnt it work, i now cant even get a network connection like i used to
i had the same problem some of you had with the internet failing on the xbox. You should do all the steps above but befor you finish try system prefrences> sharing>services and then enable personal web sharing. it worked for me hope it works for you too.
well, now that i cant even get a network connection for some reason it doesnt seem like anything is working at all
not to jinx myself, but now i just set everything to automatic and im on Live
good grief. we’ll see how long it lasts
ah that sucks and i resized turning on personal web sharing only works for on line play but you can always turn of your fire wall for when your downloading stuff im still trying to find away to not have to turn off my fire wall to download stuff.
Yeah its working up to the point and gives me “Your NAT type is Moderate. people on networks with…. blahblah”
Damn how annoying!
its as though my xbox takes a week to figure out what i did then tries to work against me. once again, no xbox live…
I need help! I think “noob” has the same problem as me.
When I go into terminal and put “ifconfig en0″ it doesn’t have inet anywhere.
I’ve been trying to get it to work for days but I don’t know what to do! I posted my problem on the Xbox forums,here:
http://forums.xbox.com/25854259/ShowPost.aspx
E-mail me if you can help me!
brar.amber@gmail.com
Network=connected
internet=FAIL!
i dont know what to do, this is so frusturating
The number i get after inetis different every time I restart my compueter and it always starts at 169.xxx.xxx.xxx You say it should be 192.xxx.xxx.xx is this odd? Also I got a network set up but was unable to get on the internet. It said my DNS was wrong. My DNS was 192.168.1.4, you said it should b3 10.0.1.1, is that odd?
If your having trouble with your 360 not connecting to the internet but it will connect to the network it’s more than likely a problem with your DNS. to fix it go to the terminal (look above for instruction on where to find the terminal if you don’t know how) and type “cat /etc/resolv.conf” notice the space between “cat” and the first slash. Something like this should come up
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain hsd1.co.comcast.net.
nameserver 68.87.85.98
nameserver 68.87.69.146
The two addresses are your DNS servers that your Internet provider has supplied for your network. Now type the first one into you Primary and secondary DNS on your Xbox and you should be in business.
I typed in “cat /etc/resolv.conf” and only got
andrew-garcias-macbook:~ gwarcia$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 192.168.1.1
am I messing up? Should I have the two addresses or is the one sufficient?
Thanks for the help.
I’m having the same problems as everybody else it seems. My 360 will connect to my macbook, but will not connect to the internet. I have checked to make sure my DNS server settings are correct, and that did not seem to effect anything. Could it be my wireless router being stingy? I have a D-link router, thats pretty much the lowest of the low. What kinds of routers are everybody else using who have this problem?
So if all else fails use the cord that came with the Ethernet cord that came with the xbox not one you already owned, such was my problem and after deciding to troubleshoot I switched the cords and worked perfectly, just to mention I am using a mac to connect and it all worked out very well.
Thank you … Thank you … Thank you … You’re directions were PERFECT !!!!
well i entered the manual stuff and it can connect to my network, but it says it cant find the DNS xbox live servers. PLZ HELP!
NVM! yay! look at the 4TH comment and do exactly what he says. it worked for me
this is frustrating
i cant get my DNS thing to connect
plz help me
Same problems here… I’ve been sharing my internet through my mac for a long time and have tried everything that used to work but now something is wrong. Getting very annoyed here… There has to be a better way.
Yeah, Follow the 4th comment. I did and it worked! Thanks!
i dont know how to get my connection to open instead of moderate can some one help
i need help plz i had this workin yesterday and now it doesnt let me pass dns!!!!
nvm bout the dns now but how do you change the nat?
again, i also am having trouble.
same as many other people, mine was working for a few days and now all of a sudden something’s wrong with the DNS and connecting to the xbox live or xbox.com servers.
the difference is the fact that i used this exact method all winter break and it worked perfectly.
for my primary and secondary DNS, i’ve tried every method. the actual way described in the tutorial, the 4th comment and using inet for both DNS’, and even bumping up the inet 1 digit, and using 192.168.2.2 for both of them.
nothing is working, not even enabling personal web sharing. this is so incredibly frustrating because it worked before and now it just doesn’t.
When I do this I consistantly get a DNS error when I log in saying that it can’t resolve the names of the xbox live servers or xbox.com
I followed the steps Jim told us above (Use the Gateway adress returned from terminal as DNS servers).
For me it works perfectly. thanks a lot!!!
“This works on my MacBook running 10.5.6 and my XBOX 360 with NXE update installed.
You must first go into System Preferences > Sharing and enable internet sharing.
Then, if you want to, disable your firewall (System Preferences > Security > Firewall). If my firewall was not disable XBox Live gave me a NAT error, but still let me connect.
Network Settings:
Manual IP/Manual DNS
IP Address: 192.168.2.2*
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.2.1*
Primary DNS: 192.168.2.1**
Secondary DNS: 192.168.2.1**
*Run “ifconfig en0? in the Terminal, use the IP address returned after “inet”. I’ve been told that it’s always 192.168.2.1, but I’m not sure. For “IP Address”, add 1 to this number, for “Gateway”, use the number.
** This is the same number returned using “ifconfig en0?. Others have said to use the DNS of the ISP or the router, this has never worked for me. Instead, using the IP of the Mac did.”
taken from Jim (above)
I am not sure how to get my xbox live to work i am a profile i have xbox live but when i try to get on A display comes up and says ” Connection failed because Xbox Live is resticted on this gamer profile. WHAT DO I DO ?????
I have this setup going, but i am having trouble forwarding the ports. All the right ports are forwarded to my mac by the router but my mac is not passing them along to the xbox. Any clues on how to fix this? I am running 10.5.
im gettin the nat prob. any suggestions?
What if i go to get the wireless router ID and it is blank in the feild?
Man, thank you so much. I read on a forum how to do this and it just kept NOT working. Read your tutorial and it is running great. Thanks, you saved me $100.
The directions here:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071223001432304&query=xbox%2B360
Make solving this problem on the mac WAYYY easier.
I can connect and play but it tells me i have a restricted NAT, this prevents me from playing Halo efficiently. Whenever i play Halo 3 i get booted from the game, but all of my other games work fine. Any solutions?
,Dan Brazier
THANK YOU it was a great help PERFECT and it’s all because of you much love JP
Hey,
does anybody have any tips on how to set up an connection between my xbox 360 and my macbook via an vpn server to let my xbox think it is connected via an us ip?
i tryed alot of stuff and there are some tuts for doing it with windows, but ot for the mac…
any help would be nice…
Thanks in advance.
THANKYOU!
worked a treat!
Hey,
I did everything you said to do and it still didn’t work. I can connect to the network but not from the network to the internet. My Xbox says that my “DNS server can’t resolve the names from of the Xbox Live servers or Xbox.com”
Guys I am having the same DNS error. The crazy frustrating thing is that everything was working perfectly, went on a 1 week vacation, and now it doesn’t work. I have tried freaking everything…any ideas?
I used the tutorial above but whenever i test my xbox live connection the network adapter says wired, IP Adress says confirmed, but DNS says failed, and i’m not sure why..help?
When I typed “ifconfig en0″ i got this:
inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
And when I typed “cat /etc/resolv.conf” into Terminal i received three nameservers…
nameserver 192.168.2.1
nameserver 209.18.47.61
nameserver 209.18.47.62
Can someone please be patient with me and tell me what numbers to use?
You have to turn off YOUR FIREWALL! Under system pref>security>firewall (set to allow all incoming traffic) also under internet sharing turn it off and on and make sue the window pops up saying “start sharing” I had a headache trying to get my DNS to work but after this works like a charm. Hope this helps
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You are awesome. this worked perfectly. Saved me 100$!!!
Works Great! I had some trouble at first. Then I went to System Preferences — Network and manually entered my IP Address. For some reason the automatic DHCP config was assigning some random address.
Configure: Using DHCP w/ manual address
IP Address: 192.168.2.1 (per directions)
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
DNS Server: in the same place (System Preferences–Network) see what DNS Server and Search Domain your connection has. In my case 10.0.1.1
Search Domain: follow DNS step… in my case ca.cox.net
that fixed my problem
i dont know who you are, but you sir, who made this tutorial, are my savior. you saved me 100$.
i need help my internet router crashed a day ago and now my xbox linked with my mac does not get the inter net from the mac ive tried all the settings and nothing will work plz helpme
Wow that worked like a dream thank you!
Hey so i am having troubles like a couple of people above
i can connect to the network but not the internet
i am following all the steps but nothing is working
whats wrong?
Excellent tip, thanks a million, really useful.
This worked great! (see below) …although about 6 addresses came up, I typed in the first two, and it worked like a charm.
>”If your having trouble with your 360 not connecting to the internet but it will connect to the network it’s more than likely a problem with your DNS. to fix it go to the terminal (look above for instruction on where to find the terminal if you don’t know how) and type “cat /etc/resolv.conf” notice the space between “cat” and the first slash. Something like this should come up
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain hsd1.co.comcast.net.
nameserver 68.87.85.98
nameserver 68.87.69.146
The two addresses are your DNS servers that your Internet provider has supplied for your network. Now type the first one into you Primary and secondary DNS on your Xbox and you should be in business.”
when i test it works till it gets to DNS then it “fails” i put in the one that i got from ipv4 address but it didn’t work. i also tried the inet on. neither worked
i tried the ipv4 and the network address
For those of you having problems with the internet connection failing when plugging in the ethernet cable, try this:
1. Go to System Preferences > Network.
2. Select “Ethernet”
3. Set “Configure” to “off”
4. Type in your routers ip adress in DNS.
5. Hit apply and insert ethernet cable.
Solved the problem for me
i was able to get through to the internet but then is stoped at the pc part. it said pc not listed but what do you do when it is the mac
none of this is working for me. as soon as i test connection i get “test failed” instantly. I’ve tried everything that i can think of. I restored to defaults to try again and it will not let me enter the subnet mask. says its not valid, must be in xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx format (which it is). Its just not connecting at all.
anyone having problems with DNS try turning your network sharing off and on. it fixed my issues everyone seems to be having.
hope that helps.
See Tom Erik (comments September 22, 2009). Followed the tutorial instructions and without success during the internet test. I stopped internet sharing. Put my routers IP address in the DNS server field for the ethernet connection. Restarted internet sharing and connected without delay on the next attempt.
I’m able to connect, for now!
It says it doesn’t have an IP address when I connect it to another computer over airport.
No success after trying EVERYTHING
Thanks for the tutorial!! Worked perfectly, and saved me from buying an wireless adapter :]
Also, I was amused after going through the trouble to get all the numbers and addresses I needed, they were the same ones you used in the tutorial haha.
Thanks for the info!
I actually had already set this up (albeit with different settings) and it was working fine until yesterday, when for some reason it stopped working. Repeating everything from step 1 following your guide worked like a charm!
I was having such a hard time, follow step 4 and it works 100%
what happens when you cant find the inet number? where is it? i dont see it after entering the config code
I had the same problem James, try entering just “ifconfig” without the “en0″. You should get a longer list and there will be a line with “en0″ at the begging. That’s where you should see the inet number, probably 192.168.2.1
hope this works for you too.
if you follow the directions for 10.5 (i just tested on 10.6 and it works) at http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071223001432304&query=xbox%2B360 you should be able to set everything on the xbox to auto and get it to work
Thanks guys I finally got it. I have entered all of the numbers in properly, and when I test the connection, I am able to connect to the network without any problem. However, during the testing process, I am not able to connect from the network to x-box live. Any suggestions?
ive redone it several times and everytime i get dns error… any fixes?
i only have one dns code? i have 2 wire if this helps..
i used the dns code for both of them and it still didnt work.
help?
I’m getting a “Your Nat type is moderate” warning and I want to know how I can fix this?
Ok, so everything works, until the part where it must connect to the internet, and it says, your DNS server cant resolve the namves of the xbox live servers. My DNS is not wrong already checked a tousand times and ive also restarted the router. what do i do?
i really dont know how to do it i got confused on the terminal stuff and it doesnt work for me so can you please help me
thankyou very much, extremely useful
when i type “ifconfig en0″ i do not see an inet address and when i just type “ifconfig” i still don’t see en0. i see en1 instead. why is this happening?
What if I’m trying to do this with two different xboxes. One works perfectly and now my buddy got a mac and his xbox wont connect to xbox live through his mac with the same settings as mine. we changed the ip address to 192.168.2.3 so they wouldnt have the same ip but he is getting a DNS error
any ideas?
After some pain in @$$ I finally got it to work. Wasn’t trying to hook into XBOX, but a Directv HD Receiver. Using OS X 10.5.8 on macbook pro
What I did–
1. Start with the previous posts of sharing your internet connection.
1.1. type “ifconfig en0″ in the terminal and view your inet address–mine was 192.168.2.1
2. Go into System Prefs / Network
2.1. click on AirPort, then advanced — make note of your router address–mine was 192.168.2.1–because this poses as a conflict with the inet address i logged into my router and changed it’s address to be 192.168.0.1
3. Select Ethernet
3.1. In the configure drop-down box, select “Using DHCP with manual address”
3.2. Click on the IP address and use inet address (192.168.2.1)+1 –should be 192.168.2.2
3.3. Type your router address in the DNS server block (see item 2.1)
3.4. click apply — you are done with configuring the computer
4. XBOX setup (For my example I am using Directv HD DVR, but items should be the same)
4.1. IP address should be a non-conflicting IP address. If you used 192.168.2.2 in step 3.2, then add 1 more (192.168.2.3)
4.2. Subnet Mask = 255.255.255.0
4.3. Default gateway = the number from item 3.2
4.4. DNS server will be your router IP address from item 2.1
Hope this helps some of you. If you need clarification on anything I have done, let me know. I will try to answer whatever I can and
—I have done the steps listed in this forum so if all else fails, give this a try and repeat my steps. **** http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071223001432304&query=xbox%2B360 ****
Also try configuring your computer first before connecting your ethernet to your xbox.
Ferris you’re a hero
THIS WORKED FOR ME AFTER TRYING FOR HOURS:
When you’re done doing the internet sharing (airport through ethernet etc.) click on the lock on the left side which stops any changes from happening.
then close system prefs
ok i did everything tested the connection and everything worked. but when i went to go on xbox live it told me i needed an update i click yes and it told me it could not complete the update and to check my connection? wtf?
yo my ip address and all that other stuff keeps changeing wtf?
Look as Ferris’ comment
worked for me.
I’m using a Macbook, version 10.6 and a new xbox purchased winter 2009. I found that the link at the bottom was not necessary.
thanks!
Ok, so I have read through the thread a few times and it seems like quite a few people a problem with the NAT showing up as strict or moderate (as I am), yet there are no responses with directions on how to fix this. If someone could post some, that would be great.
I read that I need to connect the correct ports for forwarding in your internet gateway for the 360’s IP address. What does this mean and how do I do it?
thanx so much u saved me alot of money
I repeat, Ferris is a hero.
Here’s how I solved the problem:
1: Follow this: **** http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071223001432304&query=xbox%2B360 ****
2: go through Ferris’ directions. They key for me was the conflict with the router address and the inet address. Be sure they do not conflict and you should be good.
FERRIS YOU ARE MY MAN. I have been trying this for about 6 hours total and finally, i realized its all about the router and inet address not being the same. YAYAYAYAYAY
Thank you SO goddamned much. Excuse my language, but I feel it’s the only way to let my expression show.
All hail King Ferris!
Yeahhhhhhhhh buddy. Very happy about this my friend!
Glad it worked out for you guys!!!
thank you, thank you, thank you
I don’t know why this doesn’t work for me, on a hotel internet connection, have mac connected on airport, got the inet #, router IP #, typed it all in and test with an error before the network icon. More info says “Can’t connect to your network hardware using a static IP address.” Is there any sol’n? I’m on OS 10.6 btw and thanks in advance!
Alright We finally got two xboxs on the same router working while plugged into two diffrerent mac computers using internet sharing thanks to ferris’ post on dec 9th, but now the second xbox wont let the player join any partys on xbox live and i think it has to do with us changing his ip address…….
any ideas or solutions?
When i tried this it worked great. But now after a few days my Xbox is no longer connecting to Xbox Live. I went back and checked all the settings for everything on both my macbook and my xbox and everything is the same. Any suggestions?
i cannot get the network to show on the 360itll never connect or show it… i use a wireless hook up for my 360 but i got more bars on the comp so i want those used instead…how i get the network to show am i not doing a step right?
I try to type in the subnet mask 225.225.225.0 and an error shows up on the xbox screen that says “The subnet mask you entered is not valid. This address must be in format xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. Any suggestions?
I <3 Ferris
My connection from xbox to network works, but internet fails! I’ve had it working before but now it won’t let me connect. Please help, I know I did all the steps right!
oh and btw i run 10.6.2 if that helps any. Please tell me how to fix i tried all strategeys in comments none worked! PLZ POST TO HELP ME!
okai, when i try to connect to Xbox Live, it tells me that my DNS is the problem. is there something you can do to help me out? Thanks
dear
we followed carefully all your instructions and we conected was sucess.
thanks a lot for your time to wrote down all the details.
thanks
Alain
Ok I got it working if u folo all the steps and internet still won’t connect then u set everything to automatic test then set to manual again ur settings should be saved then u just test again thnx a lot for all ur help guys
hey im really getting frustrated. i am at a UCSB and im trying to get this xbox live to work. it was working for about a week and somehow it stopped. i tried your method and it didnt work. it said the internet failed. PLEASE HELP. PLEASE
doesn’t work for me, my xbox won’t connect at all. tested and my internet and network runs fine. what am i doing wrong?
well, if the step to connect to xbox live is failing, u need to download a program, idk what it is but try flash player, shockwave, and javascript. If none are connecting on test connection (viewed on the xbox) then it means u did the steps wrong.
oh and if the network to internet fails, and u r runnin 10.6.2 then set everything to automatic, test, then set everything manually again. If u run an older version than 10.6 folo some of the comments above.
ok jordan, i need 2 know the software of ur cpu
Well jordan…
need help with this. i did everything it told me to. when i test network is fine then it goes to find pc. then it says pc not listed. what do i do?
Ok, I was able to connect the 360>Network and Network>Internet…. but my Internet wont connect to Xbox Live…. (Internet x Xbox Live) The suggestions my 360 gives is restart router and wait 30 sec…. and they it also says my router or ISP may be blocking access to Xbox Live. What do I do?
Let me know if you can help, thanks.
well, all i know is how to fix the internet fail step. Set ur secondary DNS to 0.0.0.0 or nothing. If Xbox live fails, call your cable company, they might be blocking it.
Well, u hit test xbox live connection not test PC connection.
hmmm mines working perfectly thank you very much
Ferris you beauty – works like a dream! Follow Ferris’s tips and itll work no problem!!!Thanks man
it took almost twelve trys but finally worked
my question is not 100 relevant to the xbox thing, but ive just managed to share my internet through AirPort, from my mac mini, and Internet is working flawlessly on my MacBook, one question i have, does the main server (mac mini) must be on for the internet to be working through AirPort,
thanks heaps
I connected my xbox through my mac for the first time the other day and followed the process at the top of the page. Everything worked fine the test connected and I signed up for xbox live. The next day however when I went to log in it wouldn’t work and when i tried to renter the same details (ip address, DNS etc) into the network configuration screen it said the DNS server can’t resolve the names of the xbox LIVE servers or xbox.com. The just keeps sending round in circles getting me to turn the router on and off and change the setting from manual to automatic then when that doesn’t work manual again. Anyone else had this or no how to fix it.
Same problem. If network to internet fails set the secondary DNS to 0.0.0.0 then you should be good.
Iv’e tried every solution above (really iv’e read though them all) and nothing has changed. As almost everyone has reported “it worked fine at first but then it did not work” that was the problem for me. the problem started after 1 day when the nat became moderate then after a weeks time the internet failed. I still can obtain a network connection but how do that help me? My error message is “Your dens severs cannot connect to xbox.com severs, ” I have tried all the possible DNS listed above. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. (note i call xbox and they said it was out of their support boundary!)
dude, i called xbox too, what software r u runnin? If it’s snow leopard then just follow the original steps, except change the secondary DNS to 0.0.0.0 and it should work. If ur runnin something older (or if that advice didn’t work) then all i can do to help u is turn of xbox, cpu then router, wait 30 secs then turn on in the opposite order. That should work and i hope it helps.
So there is no way a DIRECT connect using an Ethernet cord (Xbox to Mac)?
read the original post…yes there is
if u r still havin some trouble follow the last few comments
SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP!
So im trying those steps that Ferris posted but i do not understand what the 4th step is telling me to do: “Open /tmp/bootpd.plist for editing using TextEdit or whatever.”
How or where do i “open /tmp/bootpd.plist” for editing in textedit!?!?!?!?!?
PLEASE HELP!
4th coment helped so much!!!! i just used the numbers he used and not my own and it worked!!!!!!!! =)
I have two inet numbers. What does this mean?
I’ve tried following this step by step. I figure one of these is my computer and the other is my xbox.
So far, I still can’t get past the DNS part for my xbox.
inet 169.254.31.96
inet 192.168.2.1
AAron, Use the 192.68.2.1 number.
All, Make sure that your router IP address isn’t the same as your Inet #
I created a quick excel doc that when you plug in your numbers, it will output what you need to plug into the xbox. Hope it helps.
http://rapidshare.com/files/348415522/mac-to-xbox.xls.html
Ferris i love you!
mine stopped working after a while of not using the xbox
now it works again!
thanks a lot!
I get the the pc part but it won’t let me select one since my computer thing isn’t popping up.
Help and plz give me some suggestions.
i need some serious help. My router was not getting internet so i changed my source on system prefs>network to something i made. I changed it back and now my internet step is failing again. Can anyone help?
Hey if anyone is still looking for a solution you might want to watch this video and try it, i finally got my live working woo!
dude u need to post the video link
oh and i edited the ip and dns on system prefs network then ethernet which got my live working
ok, soo i found out that by connecting your xbox 360 via ethernet cable to your mac an error may appear while testing the connection. The error im talking about is the DNS server cannot resolve the names… ect.. If u go back to System Preferences > Network Sharing, turn sharing off, wait about 10 seconds, and turn it back on and test the connection again, it connects, but comes up with NAT settings set to strict.
Heres where i need some help from you guys…
With the NAT settings set to strict, i cant join certain party chats because the NAT settings vary depending on how you connect to your internet source. i need to know how to change my NAT settings to open..
is this possible?
if u have a solution for me, email me at: BlaznDemLs@yahoo.com/
I would realy appreciate any feedback on this one, and im sure lots of other ppl would too.
Thanks so much for this! I’d been trying for a couple of days with no luck to get my xbox online (and no help from my service provider who simply gave me a new set of DNS numbers that made no difference).
After reading your post I followed the instructions and was online in 5 minutes.
It’s ingenius – essentially allowing your xbox to piggy back off your laptop’s web connection.
Thanks so much!
Thanks, this is an awesome alternative than buying a 100 dollar wireless adapter. Did anyone else get a message, something about NAT and how in might aftect my gaming experience? works great though.
didnt work, i did everything right, god, im stuck with using my gay pc and constantly dying in cod due to bad connection
My present accommodation provides wireless based internet access only and it requires that you first log in to a web based authentication page (via a browser) before it will allow your browser full access the internet.
This system only allows one (1) concurrent connection, which means that at any point only my wife’s Vista PC or my own Mac mini can be connected (wirelessly) to the Internet.
I obviously would like to have more than one concurrent connection to the internet and so, having first turned off the wireless on my wifes Vista based laptop, I’ve been endeavoring to connect her laptop to my Mac mini via an RJ45 (straight or crossover?) cable and have it share my Mac mini’s wireless connection to the Internet.
I’m running Mac OSX 10.6.2 on a Mac Mini
My wife is running Vista Home Premium SP2 on a high end Sony Vaio.
I have turned off the firewall on her laptop.
I have a normal RJ45 cable and a crossover cable.
I do not have access to the buildings router (as that’s owned by the landlord).
The details of my Mac mini AirPort connection are:
IPv4 Address: 192.168.2.97 <– dynamically assigned
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Router: 192.168.2.50
DNS Servers: 192.168.2.2
Search domains: aldas.com
NetBios Name: MACMINI
Workgroup: Workgroup
Given that I can manually assign the IP settings on the Ethernet adapters of the Mac mini and the Vista laptop… does anybody have any suggestions as to what I should set the relevant IP fields on each machine, so that the Vista Laptop can share the wireless connection being provided my the Mac mini… and / or any other things one should know in order to make this work?
Cheers,
Tony
Dom W on August, Thank you! worked like a charm.
Have recently upgraded to osx 10.6 and this dosent seem to work any more (it worked fine in 10.4, the data i get from terminal is ‘administrators-computer:~ andrewbayley$ inconfig en0
-bash: inconfig: command not found
administrators-computer:~ andrewbayley$ ifconfig en0
en0: flags=8863 mtu 1500
inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
inet6 fe80::217:f2ff:fec6:9eb7%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0×4
inet 169.254.138.211 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 169.254.255.255
ether 00:17:f2:c6:9e:b7
media: autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active
supported media: autoselect 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX 100baseTX 100baseTX 100baseTX 1000baseT 1000baseT 1000baseT none
administrators-computer:~ andrewbayley$
‘
and my router address is 192.168.2.1
i looked at the instructions at http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071223001432304&query=xbox%2B360 but these seem to make no sense to me!
Thanks
Thanks, I got my mac 10.6.2 sharing internet fine with my xbox, sick and perverted thing is that when doing the connection check it says my NAT settings are too strict and it will limit my Xbox live gameplay and I won’t be able to use the voice chat feature.
I rang my ISP, to change modem settings, he wasnt sure, does anybody know a solution please?
Thanks a heap for the tip by the way, saved me 100 bucks, greedy microsoft could have put a wireless receiver in for next to nothing
Thanks a lot for nameservers:
“nameserver 192.168.2.1
nameserver 209.18.47.61
nameserver 209.18.47.62″
It work perfect!
Andy. You want to use the 192.168.2.1 inet
you will need to log into your router and change the address of it to something else like 192.168.0.1 –right now your Inet and router address are the same.
All. I am trying to figure out how to fix the NAT issue
Ferris thank you for explain me it!
Ok. so I’ve been entering everything alright so far. However, my xbox will pass the IP and DNS test, but then will fail the MTU test. How do I fix this?
I got mine to work by just connecting my xbox to my modem which is connected to my airport and the other stuff and it worked.
So I’ve followed all of the steps, and my xbox passes network and internet. At first it would fail at the Xbox Live part of the test. Not it says that my NAT is moderate. I thought I could deal with that, but moderate NAT doesn’t allow me to do anything, I can’t d/l demos or videos, can’t preview new games, absolutely nothing, making Xbox Live completely pointless. I just keep getting “Can’t retrieve information try again later, code: 8007274c.” SO…how do I fix this moderate NAT thing? Help would be amazing. Definitely do not have the money for the ridiculous $100 adapter.
Email if you prefer: huffje at gmail . com
everytime i try doing this the network to internet wont work what can i do?
Network won’t connect to the internet.