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Create a persistent BlueTooth to Address Book connection
Authored by: jimbo2 on Aug 21, '03 12:09:35AM

Ok, the original author of this thread wrote at the end about sharing an internet connection over PPP, well, that part is actually already done! By just doing the step originally given, your phone will have a PPP connection established, you can ping it from the Mac and everything.

One thing that you will need to do, though, is in System Preferences, open Sharing, click the Internet tab, then click the option to share the connection.

A few things I've found, though. Apparently the Services app doesn't like this connection, and mail doesn't work, but there are 3rd party options. There's a cool browser called Netfront, and there's another excellent tool called IP View that lets you display the network connection info.

Now for the down side... I can't seen to get DNS working. I can establish a connection, and I can view web pages, but only if I specify the IP address, DNS names don't resolve.

The mrouter line tells the phone to use the Mac's IP addres (69.254.1.68) as a DNS server, and that just isn't working for me.

My cable connection goes into my router, which my Mac is plugged into. I know that mrouter is apparently routing IP traffic correctly since I can get out via IP, but I either need some way to configure mrouter to pass my ISP's DNS server info (anyone know of a config file for mrouter? I can't find one!), or else set up some rudimentary DNS service on the Mac that will just point everything out to the real DNS servers.

Anyone have any ideas on how to do this?



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Share2Blue-Script for Symbian Phones surfing via bluetooth/mac internet sharing
Authored by: justwords on Nov 20, '03 08:16:50AM

This script makes surfing on a symbian phone via a shared internet connection via bluetooth possible - just paste in the MAC-Adress of your phone (lookop in bluetooth system panel after successful pairing) and start the internet sharing script and select the right connection for the internet access.

http://homepage.mac.com/cks3/Share2Blue2th.sit

http://3650anda12inch.blogspot.com/

http://www.versiontracker.com/redir.fcgi/lid=373821/Share2Blue2th.sit



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Create a persistent BlueTooth to Address Book connection
Authored by: justwords on Nov 20, '03 08:17:50AM

Share2Blue-Script for Symbian Phones surfing via bluetooth/mac internet sharing
Authored by: justwords on Thu, Nov 20 '03 at 08:16AM
This script makes surfing on a symbian phone via a shared internet connection via bluetooth possible - just paste in the MAC-Adress of your phone (lookop in bluetooth system panel after successful pairing) and start the internet sharing script and select the right connection for the internet access.

http://homepage.mac.com/cks3/Share2Blue2th.sit

http://3650anda12inch.blogspot.com/

http://www.versiontracker.com/redir.fcgi/lid=373821/Share2Blue2th.sit

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