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A better way to connect Macs to a PC's shared Bluetooth
Authored by: ifandango on Jun 02, '04 11:08:13AM

hi
I have problem with this instruction...
i am configure win xp and mac os According to directions..
then im use button for connect from mac 10.3.4... win xp report " bluetooth connection successful" mac report "connecting" then "authenticating" and this is a death point.... no more... no connection

thank's!
fandango



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A better way to connect Macs to a PC's shared Bluetooth
Authored by: dferrero on Jun 02, '04 03:13:15PM

I'm failing at the same piont. I have 2 IOGear USB BT devices. One for the win 2000 machine and one for my powerbook. I am able to browse files on win 2000 from mac after 'pairing' the BT devices. When I try to setup a Null Modem serial connection following the instructions here (for xp), I get real close but fail. After I click connect, i see the logs spit out:
pppd 2.4.2b1 started by root, uid 0.
Serial connection established.
Terminal connection established.
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cu.BlueNet (my bluetooth device name).
At this point i see it trying to Authenticate.

One thing I noticed is that when I'm given the terminal prompt where I was suppose to type 'clientclient', I notice funky characters --- almost looks like the serial connection isn't using the same stop bits or encryption or ....

Please help!



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A better way to connect Macs to a PC's shared Bluetooth
Authored by: dferrero on Jul 09, '04 10:38:35AM

I overcame my problems and managed to get the mac to login to win2k machine and share it's broadband over bluetooth. My biggest beef is with Mail.app --- it still doesn't support SOCKS proxy - but that's not the point of this article.

Another BT problem I noticed is that large file transfers to the PC from Mac over blue tooth (File Transfer Protocol -- not over the PPP connection) fail at some point -- just stops sending. Is this inherent to BT reliability?



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