On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 3:13 am, Anton wrote: > I am trying to set up my mandrake 9.1 box to be the gateway to my > recently created network with a single windoze ME machine on the private > subnet.
How does the MDK machine link to the Internet? Modem or router? If it is an ethernet router is it on the same ethernet network? > Another issue is that the dhcp doesn't seem to be working. My advice would be to ditch DHCP; you might get it to work after fiddling around some more, but why bother? In my opinion it is unnecessary on a network with only two or three boxes. Set them all up to use hosts files, fixed IP addresses and fixed gateway addresses. (There is a hosts file on ME. It is somewhere under windows/system32 if I remember correctly.) If you set up a hosts file then you make DNS setup easier, since both boxes can use the ISP servers for external addresses, and hosts files for anything local. HTH (I never had any problem with ME, when it was on my laptop, but the people on the tech-support forum I frequent hate it with a passion.) -- Richard Urwin
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