On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 11:07:54 -0800 Don and Alexa Pongracz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe I am having problems defining my host. I am networked to my husbands >computer and we get our internet services from shaw.ca. when I am asked to define the >host it wants me to be very specific. The book says to use data provided by your ISP. >Well and good but shaw cable says that as I am networked, despite the fact we pay for >two computers, it is my problem and I must deal with it myself. Their solution is for >me to connect to the cable directly, which would create different settings, and I >think that would be useless. So - question - when I am defining host, what is the >right way to go? > If I understand you correctly you have a local lan segment linking your computer to your Husbands.His computer is attached to the Shaw Cable network. If so then connect it up like this Your husband will have a second lan interface with an address something like 192.168.1.1 He will have internet connection sharing set up in his Windows config. Open Mandrake ControlCentre>Network&Internet>NetworkConnection Go through the Wizard and set the parameters like this Hostname= whateveryoulike.localdomain DHCP= no IP address= 192.168.1.2 (or whatever) subnetmask= 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway= 192.168.1.1 (the IP address of your husbands computer) DNS Server= IP address of Shaws Primary DNS server as found here http://support.shaw.ca/troubleshooting/dnsservers.htm ) That should be it :) Any problems blame your husband/and or Windows/Bill Gates derek
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