Comments on: Tutorial: Mac Internet Sharing (with Xbox 360)

By: David

David — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:51:35 +0000

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.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:29:46 +0000

No success after trying EVERYTHING

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:00:33 +0000

It says it doesn’t have an IP address when I connect it to another computer over airport.

By: Russ

Russ — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:42:05 +0000

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!

By: bucky

bucky — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:17:13 +0000

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.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:48:45 +0000

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.

By: laura

laura — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:47:45 +0000

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

By: Tom Erik

Tom Erik — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:08:55 +0000

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

By: cyrus

cyrus — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:32:50 +0000

i tried the ipv4 and the network address

By: cyrus

cyrus — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:30:12 +0000

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

By: Gavin

Gavin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:21:57 +0000

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.”

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:40:42 +0000

Excellent tip, thanks a million, really useful.

By: Rockie B

Rockie B — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:40:56 +0000

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?

By: andy

andy — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:09:05 +0000

Wow that worked like a dream thank you!

By: yoot

yoot — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:29:54 +0000

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

By: Drew

Drew — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:36:24 +0000

i dont know who you are, but you sir, who made this tutorial, are my savior. you saved me 100$.

By: Juan

Juan — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:24:58 +0000

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

By: mike

mike — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:53:59 +0000

You are awesome. this worked perfectly. Saved me 100$!!!

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By: Dom W

Dom W — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:08:33 +0000

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

By: Jeff AP

Jeff AP — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:51:17 +0000

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?

By: TylerW

TylerW — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:18:26 +0000

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?

By: adhy

adhy — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:52:08 +0000

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?

By: Alec Cohen

Alec Cohen — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:58:52 +0000

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”

By: Meena Ishag

Meena Ishag — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:47:23 +0000

THANKYOU!
worked a treat!

By: decoye gheist

decoye gheist — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:52:30 +0000

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.

By: JP

JP — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:31:56 +0000

THANK YOU it was a great help PERFECT and it’s all because of you much love JP

By: Dan Brazier

Dan Brazier — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:11:22 +0000

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

By: Dylan Goldblatt

Dylan Goldblatt — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:16:01 +0000

The directions here:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071223001432304&query=xbox%2B360

Make solving this problem on the mac WAYYY easier.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:25:36 +0000

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.