Dear Brian, On Sunday 12 May 2002 07:48 pm, you wrote: > Marcia, > > I have seen some replies to this, but don't think any of them have yet > touched on a crucial point: Your laptop is running W98, so would > therefore be much more safely disposed sitting behind your linux box in > internet terms.
I agree with you here. I would like to do this but am a newbie here and really do not know how to do that. I have been reading for months about it, however, it has taken awhile to approach this for me. > > Does the laptop have an ethernet port, or can it be added? Yes, the laptop has an ethernet port and 2 USB ports. My new Toshiba DOCSIS cable modem has both an ethernet port and USB port so I hooked up my desktop with LM8.2 to the ethernet port and my laptop with dualboot Win98/LM8.2 is hooked up to the modem through USB. They both connect to the internet just fine and to my surprise even the LM8.2 is on the internet through the USB. I have been able to ping from LM8.2 on my desktop to Win98 on my laptop. I have not tried pinging from LM8.2 on my laptop to LM8.2 on my desktop yet. I thought of using VNC to use the Powerpoint program on my LM8.2 desktop if that is possible. My husband prefers using the desktop and wishes to become proficient with Powerpoint for his work. > mind the best scenario would be for the laptop to be connected to the > linux machine via ethernet - just a crossover cable between the two > would do this. Then you set up internet connection sharing and firewall > on the linux box. Add samba and you have the laptop able to share the > cable connection from behind a firewall, and move files/share printers > between the two machines. I would love to do this and probably can right now if I figure out how to set it up. > > Assuming that neither box has a network card (as you indicated the cable > modem is connected via USB), total cost for this would be almost nothing > for a NIC for the desktop and somewhat more for the laptop. Like my > budgeting? Actually both computers have a network card. The desktop also has a dial up modem which I do not use and the laptop has 2 dial up modems. I am able to use the cox cable internet from LM8.2 on the laptop through the USB connection. That was a pleasant surprise. My goal here is to be able to network all of my systems and to possibly use ipmasquerade so that Win98 can be used on the net through Linux. These are the things I need help with since I do not know exactly what to do yet. Thanks very much for your suggestions and help. Sincerely, Marcia
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