If wishes were fishes... I can't afford anything right now.

I think I have a spare Linksys router sitting around here. I'll toss it in the box with the Mac stuff?

Sure, I might as well.

I'll have to think about how I'll re-do the wiring.

I have 5 machines on My 32 port 10/100 switch. Kind of overkill, I know, but I was hoping to have my whole house hardwired by now. A port or two in every room.

Luckily I don't have them all on at once. Well, not very often.

I'll still keep working on this, because that's how I learn things. Sheer effort sometimes.

NAT or "Network Address translation" seems to be a better keyword than "IP Sharing" or "Iinternet connection sharing" when I'm looking at this problem. I wish I could set my own span of addresses for the DHCP in ICS.

Hmm. After doing a fair amount of research, messing around with NetInfo manager, et cetera, I'm forced to come to the conclusion that the subnet "192.168.2.*" is hardwired into OS X's internet sharing, and only IPs in that subnet will work. There are much more difficult ways to enable different subnets: see the mac os x hint here, if you are really desperate to use only the 192.168.15.* subnet, but I can't find that such a capability is available without doing it manually as in that hint.

My detective work: turning on InternetSharing starts three process, apparently: bootpd, natd, and named. I figured out that bootpd was the DHCP server, read its manpage, and figured out which NetInfo things it read, including what subnet it offers to the world. Opened up Netinfo manager (with Internet Sharing off) and saw that those NetInfo keys were blank. Turned Internet Sharing on and suddenly they weren't blank anymore, there was a 192.168.2.* subnet configured, and it said com.apple.nat started it up.

Unfortunately, com.apple.nat.plist contains no information about the IP range, being simply a list of on-off prefs that mean sharing is turned on.

A recursive grep for "192.168.2" in /usr, /etc, /Library, and /var failed to turn up anything useful, which means that this almost certainly isn't something you can easily set in a preference somewhere, unfortunately.

Sorry, Daniel. I don't think this is doable. I think the "192.168.2" subnet is compiled into the binary that sets up the internet sharing.

Why is the use of 192.168.15.* so important to you, just out of curiosity? Why not just move them all to 192.168.2.*? They'll still be static, just a slightly different static...

Why is the use of 192.168.15.* so important to you, just out of curiosity? Why not just move them all to 192.168.2.*? They'll still be static, just a slightly different static...

Part of it is sheer incredulity and stubbornness as a techie.

The utility I use to share under OS9 had troiuble with DHCP. My machines, including the ones I don't turn on much and the hard drive I use for ghosting, have a static IP, which I've carefully labeled.

I also have friends whose computers I have set up so if they have problems, I can plug their laptops into my LAN and select the confiuration.

When I couldn't set up my OSX sharing to conform to an existing LAN, I started wondering "WTF?" What if I was setting the same up elsewhere, etc.

After a while it became an exercise in denial. It baffles me that Apple made that decision.

However, even my stubborn geekiness must give way when it is proven I'm not crazy, and it is actually not an easily available setting...

Until such time as a hardwarwe solution is available to me, I shall change to 192,168,2,x to make my foray into OSX and forget about this conundrum.

phew. Thanks again for everyone's help/

Goodnight!

random question that no one may be able to answer. when i tape things on my VCR and then watch the tape in a VCR that is not my own, the sound is crappy. you have to turn the tv up really loud and it's all static-y. any guesses why this is happening? it plays fine on my VCR though. it's really frustrating.

I had that problem too, with an old VCR. I don't know the technically specific reason, but I chalked it up to selfishness on part of the VCR. It didn't want its tapes going into anyone's slots but its own.

I had that problem too, with an old VCR.

hmm...well this one is about a year old. maybe not even that. it's a VCR/DVD combo by Zenith.

I don't know the technically specific reason, but I chalked it up to selfishness on part of the VCR. It didn't want its tapes going into anyone's slots but its own.

now this makes perfect sense.

when i tape things on my VCR and then watch the tape in a VCR that is not my own, the sound is crappy. you have to turn the tv up really loud and it's all static-y. any guesses why this is happening? it plays fine on my VCR though. it's really frustrating

Sounds like the audio record head is misaligned. A repair tech might be able to fix that for you. Generally the audio head has a screw that allows it to be adjusted minutely up and down to get it into range.

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Speaking of VCRs, the other day someone was asking about a problem, too.

This site might be useful: [link] (Online Service Manual at fixer.com)

I've downloaded Firefox, and am using it on my secondary machine.

I went to peek at the themes and extensions, and am now dizzy. If I want mouse gestures, I have three options. If I want a new theme, I have many many options, but I can't seem to find out how to preview and compare.

I totally get the philosophical background to the flexible user-driven extensibility of the product. How do I make it manageable?

Sounds like the audio record head is misaligned. A repair tech might be able to fix that for you. Generally the audio head has a screw that allows it to be adjusted minutely up and down to get it into range.

will that cost me an arm and a leg? any idea?