Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > (The events below relate to before Christmas) > > >
Oh, sure with all that egg nod in you, no wonder you were in the ditch... > > > Hmmm. Well, there's a misunderstanding here, first of all. Mandrake is > not forcing anything; as a matter of fact, my whole point above was that > it was 98 that was being obstinate. The network here works just fine, > with no problems; but the way I got there is detailed above. LM81 never > caused any problems whatsoever; all net connections attempted by anyone > on the local net using a 98 client (after we gave them what they wanted) > went thru the LM81 machine doing ICS just fine. > I guess my confusion comes from the fact that nothing could be easier than to set up a Linux machine using NAT. Once this is done, all you need to do is take that windows machine and give it a ip address, a netmask, a dns address, and a gateway address. That's it! If that does not work, fdisk, reformat, and install a real os on that machine. > > I honestly can't see the concern about the difficulty of ICS setup on > Mandrake after having gone through it myself. It was a breeze. The > problem was not with LM81 setups. Exactly, I could not agree more with you on this one. > > > Now...As to what you said above about setting up a dhcp server. A > seperate machine? From the LM81 ICS machine? You're not serious here, > are you? Or perhaps I'm misinterpreting this and what you are saying. > Because the fact of the matter is that any LM81 machine becomes dhcp > server capable as soon as the ICS dialogue in the Mandrake Control > Center is completed. This is how the LM81 machine masquerades as a > windoze compatible ICS server. Because the 98 ICS client machines need > (by factory icssetup disk) an IP address assigned by dhcp. > No, absolutely not. DHCP (or pump) would be on the same router/gateway unless the network is quite large. At this point, after all we have written, I would think Jason (remember the guy with the original problem) is more of an expert than are we... Cheerios, -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration -Art is the illusion of spontaneity-
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