At 02:57 PM 6/7/98 +1000, Bruce Young wrote:
>G'day Ivan :)
>
>>Finnally I have my "intranet" at home (2 PC and 2 RealTek Ethernet
>>cards and a cable of course).
>
[snip]>
>I use WinGate to do proxy serving and thus allow several computers to use
>one IP address. The NT server is connected to the net and it has a proper
>IP address dynamically allocated, for one ISP, and permanent for the other.
>I gave the proxy server an IP of 192.168.0.1 (as suggested in the docs) and
>the Mac 192.168.0.2. The Mac always talks to the NT (and the net) via
>Wingate.
>
>My situation has recently been complicated by my Uni bringing in volume
>charging. While I don't have to pay myself, I still have to have the
>software running and go through extra proxies. This does mean that I have
>to fiddle with Wingate more often than I'd like.
>
>Anyway, Wingate is avaliable at http://www.winagate.net/ , note the net
>bit as someone else seems to have grabbed the .com address. You can
>download a version for free that will allow you to run your two computers.
>This "single user licence" is to allow two computers to share one line. I
>did find however that sometimes the definition of a single user was a bit
>hard to follow as sometimes you can open too many sessions etc and be
>perceived to be more than a single user. The NT (the computer I have it
>running on) doesn't have to run via wingate ... only my Mac does.
>
>To remove any ambiquity and problems that I occasionally had using the free
>version, I have now installed a five user version and I have no real
>problem with it. I'll need the five user version for my planned expansion
>anyway.
>
>The outside world can see my NT (that is, the servers I run on my NT) but
>wingate acts as a firewall also so outsiders can't see my Mac... this is
>mostly good but occasssionally I'd like to show people stuff on my Mac.
>There may be a way to do it but I don't know it. (any clues would be
>welcome :)
>
>Have a look at it anyway... I've been using it to do all my work for 18
>months now.
>
>
>I suspect that someone will suggest using Linux and a free proxy server. I
>would be happy to do that but I need to allow the people that I work with
>access to the NT server to demo stuff before it is uploaded to the work
>server. Would that be possible if it was running from the Linux proxy? I
>only have one real IP address.
What you could also do is findout from your ISP what additional
IP's are and get a dedicated IP. The reason I say this is that
programs like ICQ and a few games *g* (when I have free time I
like to play mini-golf against my friends on the net).
I have a dedicated 28.8K dialup. I also have a block of 8 IP's
to use for my other computers. I currently have 3 computers on
my network, each with their own IP's ( An NT box as the router, a
freeBSD box for running an email server, and a Win95 box).
And as for accessing the Linux (or FreeBSD box in my case) You
run a program called SAMBA. It allows you to access the server
like it is a computer on your neighborhood network. There is
also a version for Mac (I think...)
Matt Soffen
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Dilbert - "I think he means UNIX and I already know UNIX."
Boss - "Well, if the company nurse comes by, tell her I said
never mind."
- Dilbert -
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