[X4U] Wireless internet sharing in Tiger

[Neil]

Some, perhaps all, routers can clone a MAC address.  But I guess you  
do not have one handy.

Your wife could always get her email via the web interface.

You could open the required port in your firewall settings.

Why doesn't she just use an open wifi connection?  They probably leave  
it open to share excess bandwidth in an open source type spirit.  Just  
don't hog it.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 17, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Jim Robertson <jamesrob at sonic.net> wrote:

> I'm at the Marriott SF (headquarters hotel for the MW Expo). My wife  
> has
> come along but doesn't share my geek genes. The one things she WOULD  
> like to
> do is check her email.
>
> Of course, I glommed on (technical term) to the hotel's ethernet  
> access from
> our room, which I believe locks the connection I'm paying for at  
> $12.95/day
> to the MAC of my MacBook Pro.
>
> I decided I could get her access by turning on "internet sharing". In
> Tiger's system preferences I turned on internet sharing via my  
> ethernet
> connection to the internet using AirPort in our two computers (she  
> has a 12"
> Al PowerBook G4), assigned a 40-bit password for the sharing  
> connection, and
> "voila!" she had web access. However, when she tried to send or  
> receive
> email, her aol account reported that imap couldn't be accessed over  
> the port
> being used, and her sonic.net account simply didn't send or retrieve  
> (the
> little gears just kept spinning until she quit from Apple's Mail  
> client).
>
> So, I have three questions:
>
> Is there a way to configure internet sharing so that the computer  
> gaining
> 'net access through another can send/receive POP mail?
>
> Given that I have my Tiger firewall turned on and have created a  
> password
> requirement for sharing my connection, am I reletively safe in doing  
> this in
> an environment where there are more than a half-dozen unprotected  
> networks
> listed in the AirPort drop-down menu (obviously other Mac users  
> attending
> the show).
>
> Is it likely true that I couldn't disconnect my computer from the  
> hotel's
> ethernet access point in our room and plug hers in, giving her  
> access to the
> same connection that's been created for me?
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Jim Robertson
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