Internet sharing set up

Hi I am trying to Set up Internet sharing on my iBook g4 with my xbox 360. Having problems getting connected on xbox any advice.

Hmm, well the question is what are you planning on sharing with the Xbox, I've owned a 360 since the realese date and the Windows computers at my home always ask to share multimedia with it (i.e. Music and movies), for any reason the iBook may not work is that it just isnt compatiable or you have wrong software, this forum may not be good, you may want to try a Xbox forum.
If I may, whatever you want to share you can just transfer it from a USB or external HDD, this is what I did before I had the possiblity of online sharing
Cheers, -JP

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sorry about the delay in replying, was kinda busy
well trashing the pref files was useless and i tried with another user, same thing. As for the second opinion, the problem was not about which port was used cause as i said the connection sharing works fine and anyway it was the correct port that was checked, it's just that i get an error message while there is no apparent error and everything works fine, i'm told that personal web sharing is not enabled but it is...
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