Internet Sharing problem with Panther Server

[Zeno]

Hello,
I have a PowerMac G4 with an internal Airport card.

Last week I installed Mac OS X Panther “Client” on that PowerMac and I managed to share my adsl internet connection (from Built-in Ethernet) to the Airport card simply starting the Internet Sharing service available in SystemPreferences->Sharing. Thus, my PowerBook could get the internet connection from the PowerMac via Airport.

Now I installed Mac OS X Panther “Server” on my PowerMac, but I cannot find a simple way to share my internet connection as I did under Panther “Client” since the “Internet” tab in SystemPreferences->Sharing is no more available.

Can anyone help ?

[Cabbage]

I think you might have to use NAT for that. Mactroll will correct me if I’m wrong.

[Zeno]

yeah, but when I start the NAT service within the Server Admin application, I don’t see the typical “Up Arrow” symbol on the Airport status menu bar (see here: /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/AirPort.menu/Contents/Resources/AirPort_SWBS.tif) showing that the internet sharing via Airport is actually ON…in fact in my PowerBook I get no connection…

Also, the NAT service in ServerAdmin.app it’s poorly configurable: I have only one pop-up menu to set (“Network connection to share:”) and I cannot specify to which network port I want to share the connection (Airport, FireWire, second Built-in ethernet card…etc)

please…help!

[ssevenup]

I ran into this problem today also. I’m just adding my voice to the crowd. I was using my B&W as my Airport Access point under 10.2.8. I decided to install Server, and apparently this was a mistake unless there is an answer to this. I think the only short term answer is to use “AdHoc” mode via the Network control panel, but it’s not the same as “Infrastructure” (I think that’s what it’s called) mode. I’ll email our Apple engineer and maybe the federal mailing list.

–MM

From the Apple federal account engineer:

[i:0941bbf1be]I don’t believe that Airport sharing is possible under MacOS X Server the way it is in MacOS X client. However, did you check the Airport admin utility to see if it would access your internal Airport card? It’s a long shot but it might work.[/i:0941bbf1be]

No joy on the Admin utility either.

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