Hi all,
I have two PC's. One has Windows XP loaded. And the other RH 9.0.
I connect to internet through a DSL modem and am unable to find a driver for it for linux(Gnu/Linux for some).
So I want to network the two pc's to use the internet connection on the windows machine for linux.
I connected the two pc's using a cross cable and assigned the following ip addresses, subnet masks, DNS etc to the two pc's.
(did the following after googling a lot)
Windows:
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IP :::::::::::::::::::: 192.168.1.1 (just like that)
Subnet mask :::::: 255.255.255.0
DNS ::::::::::::::::: 192.168.1.1
Linux:
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IP :::::::::::::::::::: 192.168.1.2
Subnet mask :::::: 255.255.255.0
DNS ::::::::::::::::: 192.168.1.1
My internet connection assigns a seperate random IP using DHCP.
Apparently I am unable to ping from linux box and/or browse the net.
I have the following questions.
1.) What should I do on the linux side to make the network work?
2.) Would I need to change any proxies for the browser on linux? if yes, what should the proxies be?
3.) Will the DNS server IP that I assigned work? basically I want to know, if I did that part correct? if not, what should I do.
4.) And do I need to configure and run Samba on linux, if I only want to use the internet connection of windows and not share any files?
Thanks a lot,
Anoop.