I tried setting up my mac mini on my work network and no luck. I can see all my PC’s on the network. All the computers in the Domain and one PC in a workgroup but I can not get out to the internet. I can ping a server on the internet but it’s like it can’t resolve the addresses? I have a static IP network very simple domain. Nothing fancy. I just can’t get a web page to save my life on that mac. Any suggestions? TIA
maybe try to manually set the DNS server? Setup Guide | OpenDNS
My brother had a similar problem on his mac mini until last night. Looks like upgrading to Snow Leopard fixed it for him.
He initially believed it was the router or modem at his place that was defective, but OSX 10.5.x seemed to cause it, or at least, the upgrade must have reset some troublesome setting.
You may want to backup your data and weigh the pros potential cons before upgrading though.
Thanks for the reply’s. I put in the DNS as my domain controller and opened my wireless up on the router. I can get internet now but I can’t make the wireless secure. The mac will not authenticate 128 bit encryption WEP. Strange. So now I’m wide open and I don’t like it. I wonder why my domain is now starting to talk to the mac? It didn’t do that yesterday when I put the DNS in? I wish I knew what is going on.
Try just ‘WEP password’ instead of the 128bit settings…
I think DNS is the core of your original problem- its not set up correctly on your PC network. OpenDNS provides a reasonably good DNS service and should make this easier for you – just plug in the IP addresses they give on their home page as your DNS servers and you should be set.
Macs will do Wireless authentication but it seems like you don’t need it because you have a wired network, so I’d shut down the wireless. (WEP isn’t very secure anyway. WPA I believe is the currently secure protocol. Macs will speak it, but who knows if your router will.)
Networking for macs should be easy. Buy a random router, connect it to the net, turn on DHCP and you’re done. I think the problem is you’ve probably got some configuration setup that’s windows specific going on on your router.