On Wednesday 07 February 2001 07:38, Charles A Edwards wrote:
> The easiest way is to set up your Win machine to use Client for Microsot
> Network as its primary proto and set up your Linux box to use DHCP.
> Forget about "Internet Connection Sharing" in either Win or Linux.
> I have my systems running in this manner and have no problems connecting on
> any of my 4 machines using any Linux distro.
>
> Charles
>
> Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Yann Ouellet
> > Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 8:22 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: [expert] Internet connection Sharing under linux.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of Cecil Watson
> > Sent: 7 février, 2001 02:22
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [expert] Internet connection Sharing under linux.
> >
> >
> > To share the connection with Mandrake, fire up DraxConf. Click on
> > "Internet Connection Sharing". Answer the questions and that it asks.
> > You can turn off DHCP (#/etc/rc.d/init/dhcpd stop), to stop it from
> > starting #ntsysv and unselect it. The script is located at
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall.inet_sharing for fine tuning. Good luck,
> >
> > Cecil
> >
> > The problem is that i don't want to share the internet
> > connection from the
> > linux box but from the Windows box, so answering the
> > questions in internet
> > connection sharing under linux would mean that i want to
> > share from my linux
> > box. What i want to know is what to configure under linux so
> > that it can
> > pick up the internet signal from my windows box...
> >
If you don't have a heavily modified Mandrake system, the easiest way to get
this to work is to reinstall. Do the following.
0. I presume you have a working NIC on your Mandrake box and an ethernet
cable to your Windows box, maybe via a hub. If not, correct this first.
1. As above, setup your Windows box to use dhcp
2. Copy off any Mandrake stuff you want to preserve (another partition, a
backup device, etc.)
3. Note the host name used by your Windows PC (right click on Network
Neighborhood, select identity tab. If you have Microsoft File and Printer
Sharing enabled, and you want to use the Windows printer, note the Share name
and group name you are using.
4. Reinstall mandrake. During install,
in the networking section, give it the Windows host name and select dhcp.
in the printers section in addition to whatever printer you use on linux,
select the samba printer option. Don't enter a user name or password. Note,
you must backup via the lefthand tabs to do more than one printer. The
install script moves on immediately to "root password".
5. Boot the system and restore your backed up data.
Should work like a charm. This is how I'm working right now (WinME PC with
att cable connection, linux connection using Netgear NIC and hub,
installation as above).
If reinstall is not possible for you, send me mail offline and I'll send you
a copy of my networking stuff in /etc, and you can do this manually, except
that I can't tell you how to setup the NIC, since Mandrake install did that
for me automatically.
--
Collins Richey
Denver Area
