Some months ago, I used some local Russian techs to help me setting up a home LAN. During the 6-8 weeks that this went on, the local company provided two sets of two techs to set up the LAN and lastly, a third set came along and told me that Win 98 SE (UK) and all the programs, drivers, etc. need to be reinstalled on the WinGate machine. The problem turned out to be that the third group hadn't a clue what the password was for the WinGate app and therefore needed to do a complete reinstall, but was trying to stick me with a bill for their incompetence. However, this also means that I do not have the password and can make no changes to the network. At this time however, the network is functioning fine, but I am planning on taking everything over to Mandrake at a later point. Now I have a new problem. I have recently installed Mandrake Linux on a IBM machine. I want to access the Internet through my home LAN, but am unsure how to connect to the machine with WinGate installed. I remember that the last time the techs were here, they set up something that works with WinGate for my UMAX Pulsar (Mac clone), but that they also said that they had set something else up for the Wintel client machine that I have, running Win 98 SE (UK) with a 98lite install. What this is, I haven't a clue. I have looked at the network adapter properties on the Wintel client and haven't found anything that looks like something that I can use. Mandrake Linux does not recognize the IP address for the UMAX and I believe that the Mandrake machine does have a connection to the network, though I am not certain. What should I look for on the WinGate machine (or the Wintel client) and what can I do from the Mandrake machine? Thanks in advance for the patience it took to read this saga. Cheers, Brian --
