Hi, Right, just been here with this problem. Set a specific IP addy as you had for the PC and use netmask 255.255.255.0 Disable the WINS Configuration. Add gateway to point to your linux box. Here is the part I had to change for some reason. Enable DNS Configuration. My linux hostname is linux1.local.net. For host add the first part of your machines hostname [linux1] then add the last part as the domain [local.net]. Add your gateway 192.168.0.1 into the DNS Server Search Order. Add your last part of your domain [local.net] into the DNS Suffix Search Order.
This got my winME laptop to connect using the linux gateway and it has no effect on samba here, and retains your choice of static IP addresses you use. Hope this can help you. regards magnet On Sunday 08 Dec 2002 5:23 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > 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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