On Thursday 13 November 2003 11:33 pm, Anguo wrote: > Hello, > > I have not been able to find a simple step by step howto for > home networking. So far, I have absolutely no experience in > networking, or any IP address stuff.
This is older, but might be helpful http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/index.html#lfs > > Right now, I have a friend's computer at home and I would > like > 1- to share the internet connection with my own computer's > adsl. > 2- be able to do file transfer from one computer to the > other. > > To start with, I am not sure I have all the required > hardware: I don't have a hub or (obviously) a dedicated > server. > > My computer has two ethernet cards, one being connected to > my adsl modem. > My friend's computer also has an ethernet card. > What I did is connect my second ethernet card to the second > computer's card directly, with a cable running from one > card to the other. I am not sure that's the proper way to > do it... all the beautiful graphs I find on the internet > picture little box, whatever it's called, that sits between > the two computers. I don't have that and I don't know if it > is possible to connect the two computers the way I did. > > Next, I tried to run the configuration wizard in MCC on both > computers, on mine to share the internet connection, and on > my friend computer to set a LAN connection, but so far no > good. > > > I am not sure what I am missing and I can't find a mandrake > specific step by step howto. > > I created this page here: > http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/HomeNetworking > You can write your reply directly there, so that other can > benefit from your answers, or to the list and I'll put > everything there afterwards. > > > thanks > > > Augustin -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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