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

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:14:08 +0000

Hey everyone,

Figured out the problem. do everything that’s stated above in the original post, however, for the subnet you should input “255.255.0.0″ this worked right away for my mac and hopefully it will for your computer. I’m using ethernet>mac>xbox 360 in order to connect to xbox live.

Good luck

By: Karl

Karl — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:15:24 +0000

Dear Jacob,like I said previously the slim xbox is a bugger to use online unless you have a wireless system,I have the 250GB model and basically I got my settings from my mac,I used Onyx for my settings,but you can get them from system preferences on your mac,if you get it roughly right the xbox should work,but the computer won’t,it’s a question of what is more important to be online,it’s just a matter of trial and error and a lot of patience,personally unless you want to play online with others or down load content the hassle isn’t worth it especially as you have such a small hard drive.

By: jacob

jacob — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:03:50 +0000

Okay, so I get past Xbox 360 then when I get to network it wont work, it gives me this message. Your console has these manually-defined DNS settings:
Primary DNS: 192.168.1.1
Secondary DNS: 192.168.1.1
at the top it says
Your DNS server can’t resolve the names of the xbox live servers or Xbox.com
What do I do, Heres what Xbox 360 I have- Xbox 360 4GB slim, I am not using Wifi

By: kean

kean — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:31:06 +0000

so i figured my problem out for the dns error “your manually configured DNS settings may not be correct” all i did was turn off my internet sharing on my mac via airport to ethernet, then i turned it back on and for some reason that fixed my problem. so my theory is that because i disconnected my mac from my xbox for about 5 days i just needed to reboot the sharing.

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:52:17 +0000

The problem only affects the slim console connected to the internet via an ethernet cable,as with me I can either have my emac online or my xbox,not both,but when staying with friends who have a wireless system my xbox 360 slim connects no problem at all,micro soft being the typically short sighted company it is didn’t think that not all users would have WI-FI,so it you want an xbox online trouble free I advise people to buy the older console the elite or the core forget the slim.

By: kean

kean — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 06:20:38 +0000

it worked before but i cant seem to figure it out no one els seems to have found a solution to this problem

By: kean

kean — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:06:39 +0000

i followed the original instructions and it worked for awile now when i try to connect to the internet it says “your manually configured DNS settings may not be correct”

By: bizzymac89

bizzymac89 — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:51:45 +0000

thank you so much everyone…with everyones help from the terminal configs to the xbox and computer configs…. now i can get back on some call of duty…you guys made this gamers day

By: hamid

hamid — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:40:28 +0000

will i have to do this everytime i want to connect to xbox live? enter the ip’s and stuff?

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:55:42 +0000

Tom Erik Thank You for ur tip

By: OpTicspider55

OpTicspider55 — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:04:27 +0000

What if I want to connect my Xbox 360 slim to the airport what do I do? Thanks for replying

By: Arts

Arts — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 23:54:18 +0000

I was manually setting the ip of the ethernet adapter on my mac, to force the subnet ip, but no luck. Seems like the mac generates the subnet and only shares the connection through that subnet. In my case it was 192.168.2.0 as well.

Thanks!

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dc Credit union — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:26:42 +0000

useful information about internet sharing

By: Luis

Luis — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:04:21 +0000

G5*

By: Luis

Luis — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:52:42 +0000

does this work with a flatscreen imac V5?

By: JDMsteenroller

JDMsteenroller — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:39:01 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?src_vid=6u2WEGWfuGA&v=6TmRhonXa5s&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_316309

this video works awesome, anyone know how to change your NAT settings?

By: brent

brent — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:10:13 +0000

thanks for you info. i’ve been trying for a long time to get my xbox to run from internet sharing on my imac running 10.6.8. i’m in a wheelchair and had not had anyone help me hook it directly with an ethernet cord, but i just got it working by using your tutorial and the info from my ipod. i went into settings on my ipod, went into wi-fi and substituted the info in there to where you put them in the xbox and now i enjoying xbox live. thanks. i hope this helps people that can use an ipod though their wi-fi, but not their xbox.

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 04:55:15 +0000

ok guys, i used a different tut to set this up and it worked for about a month. all of a sudden, it just stopped working. i tried tons of different tuts (including this one) and they just didn’t work anymore. I figured maybe all of the different settings i’ve put in before might be conflicting so i went to the additional settings tab and restored the network settings to the factory defaults, in the process setting everything to automatic. After being set to automatic it connected! maybe it only worked for me but if nothing works, try restoring to factory defaults

By: Jammy

Jammy — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:19:59 +0000

YES IT WORKED

By: Aniket

Aniket — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:48:03 +0000

Thank you so much! This helped a ton, brilliant post!!

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:04:11 +0000

Well not everyone is running Lion and not everyone always wants the latest thing as and when it comes out.

By: Eric C

Eric C — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:04:17 +0000

You don't have to do any of this if you're running OSX 10.7, Lion.
Just set to automatic on the xbox side for ip and DNS and share airport to ethernet on the Mac.
That's it! I just upgraded to Lion today and about freaked out when my xbox wasn't connecting.

By: Karl

Karl — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:40:04 +0000

Sharing doesn't work when using the new xbox model,the easiest way is to have either one online at a time,all you do is reset the modem every time,micro soft being an awkward company and anti mac have made this happen on purpose,so you can only have one online at once.

By: mobistealth

mobistealth — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:39:54 +0000

Yeah, Follow the 4th comment. I did and it worked! Thanks!

By: Karl

Karl — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:19:07 +0000

Sharing makes no difference,I have tried it a dozen times,microsoft do it to be awkward to mac users.

By: Alex Hastings

Alex Hastings — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:27:37 +0000

For anyone having the issue where you were recently able to connect to XBOX Live, and for some reason now you’re not (even though the settings have remained the same); Try this;
Go to System Preferences < Sharing <

And disable than enable "Internet Connection Sharing" 6 or so times. Make sure to do it more then once even if you haven't previously tried a solution like this.

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By: J.P.

J.P. — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:45:16 +0000

After several attempts I finally got it work. My issue was a stupid one. When checking for my IP address using terminal, it would show up 2 IPs. I stupidly used the self-assigned ethernet IP.

I just unplugged the ethernet cable, ran ifconfig one more time and got my computer’s ACTUAL IP. It worked great.

Thanks.