Hello, I have not been able to find a simple step by step howto for home networking. So far, I have absolutely no experience in networking, or any IP address stuff.
Right now, I have a friend's computer at home and I would like 1- to share the internet connection with my own computer's adsl. 2- be able to do file transfer from one computer to the other. To start with, I am not sure I have all the required hardware: I don't have a hub or (obviously) a dedicated server. My computer has two ethernet cards, one being connected to my adsl modem. My friend's computer also has an ethernet card. What I did is connect my second ethernet card to the second computer's card directly, with a cable running from one card to the other. I am not sure that's the proper way to do it... all the beautiful graphs I find on the internet picture little box, whatever it's called, that sits between the two computers. I don't have that and I don't know if it is possible to connect the two computers the way I did. Next, I tried to run the configuration wizard in MCC on both computers, on mine to share the internet connection, and on my friend computer to set a LAN connection, but so far no good. I am not sure what I am missing and I can't find a mandrake specific step by step howto. I created this page here: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/HomeNetworking You can write your reply directly there, so that other can benefit from your answers, or to the list and I'll put everything there afterwards. thanks Augustin -- Linux. The Future is Open. "If Linux were a person, he would be growing, fast. Taught by the best. Gaining wisdom beyond his years. And sharing. He would be in business, education, government and homes. He would be a nine-year-old boy changing the world." IBM about Linux http://www-3.ibm.com/e-business/doc/content/lp/prodigy.html
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