Can I share a "PC" connection with the Mac?

[lidgett]

Hi,
I have a broadband wireless card on a MacBook Pro (card only runs under Windows) and I would like to use the PC's wireless connection when in Mac apps.

So, can the PC be configured to share it's internet connection with the Mac. I am not a PC expert, so please be explicit for me. Many thanks

Scott

 

[dkp]

Hi,
I have a broadband wireless card on a MacBook Pro (card only runs under Windows) and I would like to use the PC's wireless connection when in Mac apps.

So, can the PC be configured to share it's internet connection with the Mac. I am not a PC expert, so please be explicit for me. Many thanks

Scott

If the card is truly used only by Windows then it will have it's own IP. If you can get Windows to act as a gateway between the Mac address space and the Windows address space then yes - it should work. It will mean setting the Mac's default route to what ever Windows presents to it. Any existing firewall products running on OS X and Windows will have to be configured to support it and the same goes for DNS server assignments. There may or may not be NAT or proxy issues depending on if you'd like to share out OS X services. I'd consider doing it as an exercise but it would not be my first choice for a network architecture.