Internet Sharing and Self-Assigned IP

it did not for me. i hoped. i prayed. but no. it may even be worse. when i could get it to work it was for no more than a few seconds. and the 10.6.1 update didn't help either.

i made some attempt at the terminal workaround back in 10.5.8 but couldn't get it to work. the last terminal workaround i saw posted here was in german, so that's not going to work.

i just tried the sharing again, and miraculously, at the moment, it is working at 10.6.1

Exact Same thing happening for me!!! This is driving me crazy!! I use internet sharing from my iMac to connect to my iPhone, and my iPhone sees the wireless network and connects but the internet doesn't work at all :P Only once I reboot it will work for the first 10 - 15 mins........

Only thing I could figure out is that WEP internet sharing no longer works over snow leopard. (at least for me) WPA/WPA2 configured over a internet router seems to work but the iMac cannot emit a WPA network, you need a separate wireless router to do that. Seems like it is a pretty wide problem, how did Apple not take this into consideration when releasing Snow Leopard??

I've been having the same problems as everyone else here. Trying to share internet connection from my ethernet wired iMac to my MacBook and my iPhone. Tried all the workarounds, but nothing works, or lasts very long.

Yesterday, I finally talked with AppleCare for over an hour. All their suggestions (trashing preferences, changing settings, etc.) failed, as well. The AppleCare person then put me on hold to speak to an engineer, who told her that Snow Leopard no longer supports Internet Sharing as of 10.6.1.

Not willing to accept that answer, I had them set up an appointment at the Apple Store Genius Bar for me, and after chatting with the Genius for a while, he also confirmed that Internet Sharing is no longer supported under Snow Leopard. Apparently, there were many hardware issues that the engineers decided to circumvent, and so did not include support for Internet Sharing with the internal airport in Macs. They said that the Airport it is intended to receive, not to send a signals! Yet, it worked fine, doing just that, under Tiger and Leopard! The only fix he could offer was to wipe my drive and take me back to 10.5, which I declined.

However both the guy at the Genius Bar and the lady at AppleCare inferred that Apple "may" release another update to fix this issue, if they get enough complaints and bug reports.

So, there you have it. Apple no longer officially supports Internet Sharing in Snow Leopard.

ActIIsc2 wrote:
So, there you have it. Apple no longer officially supports Internet Sharing in Snow Leopard.

That is NUTS! So, I have to buy AirPort Express?

This is BS! Where can I complain!?!

I encourage you to send Feedback to Apple via:
<http://www.apple.com/feedback>

THIS COULD BE A FIX FOR SNOW LEOPARD. JUST STARTED USING IT AND SO FAR IS WORKING WELL.
Thanks to who ever put the time in to figure it out.
http://geekandmoney.com/2009/09/internet-sharing-via-airport-on-snow-leopard/

I'm experiencing the same problem: since I upgraded to 10.5.8 from 10.5.7, internet sharing has only worked intermittently, and since I discarded some of the preferences in /Library/Preferences/System Configuration, I'm completely unable to enable it. I even tried restoring some of the preferences from over a month ago, but that didn't help.

Here's the kicker, though. 10.5.8 cannot be completely incompatible with internet sharing, because I happen to have another unibody MBP (late 2008) which runs basically a very basic system with little third-party software, and on that machine, Internet Sharing works every time. So it must boil down to some file difference ...