Subj : Re: Networking Windows?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Minderbinder
Date : Mon Feb 28 2005 05:55 am

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:51:08 -0800, pyrophobicman wrote:

> I was just doing a small networking job for a friend, when they said
> they wanted to access the internet from a laptop running FC2/WINXPhome
> (while in FC), through a computer running WIN98FE's modem (56k). So I
> got windows to windows working. It worked perfectly; transferring huge
> files quickly. So I got to Linux to do anything, and not much happened.
> The eth0, which I made sure had the right hardware/software settings,
> could not read the IP address. I quickly looked up on the i-net, and
> found several different people with similar problems. I tryed every
> amb-related thing and everything cifs, and none of it worked. Please
> help me, it makes me look silly!
> Thanks ahead,
> Poly-poly man

You need to work on satisfying the following requirements:-

1. The local area network needs to be working properly (Windows file
sharing and/or SaMBa are not required).

2. The Windows machine needs to be routing packets on behalf of other
machines on the LAN. To do this, you probably want some software that
provides NAT (Network Address Translation - look it up).

3. The Linux client needs to have its default gateway set to the IP
address of the gateway machine. Also, if your gateway doesn't provide a
DNS service for name resolution, you should enter the ISP's DNS server
addresses in /etc/resolv.conf.

Cheers,
Minderbinder.

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