Got a 3 comp LAN. My main computer is running Linux - 56k connection and both
the other comps do sharing under Mandrake v8.2 just fine. Yeah, its slow, but
I let my sons browse to find school articles sometimes (with me right over
their shoulders!).
Anyways, my 12 year old picked up this Windows game, Earth & Beyond. Not a
bad looking game but its Windows only, won't run under WineX and is *online*
only. So he asked me to set it up so he could play it under Windows on his
machine -> with my main Linux comp as gateway.
So...I normally have static ip addressess assigned to our machines - like
this:
darkforce 192.168.0.1 (my main comp)
darkforce2 192.168.0.2 (12 yr olds)
darkforce3 192.168.0.3 (9 yr olds)
I didn't have to do hardly anything for the Linux side of things to work like
this.
Windows won't find the 'Net like this though. I finally did the right-click
Network Neighborhood/properties routine, added my IP address as gateway, and
I had to pick automatically assign number. This worked. However, when I do
this, I can't use Samba from my machine to access his anymore (or even ping
each other). Change his settings back to a static IP - Samba works again, and
we can ping each other - and he can't accesss the 'Net again.
I can just change this everytime I want to use one or the other, but its a
bit of a hassle (and besides that - Windows always asks for a freaking reboot
everytime!)
I'm sure there is a way to share connections with Windows 98SE and still use
an assigned IP address with Samba?
Does anyone else have a setup like this and can help?
Thanks much!
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