this might be a better question to ask on the WinGate support list. as iu remember (and remember is key here, I have not used wingate in a couple of years) wingate, it requires a valid hosts file in the c:/ folder. can you post the contents of that file? can we ask why you want a winders machine as the connection to the net and not the Mandrake machine. It is my understanding that (due to it being basically a single user OS) winders ain't likely to be as secure to the world as the Linux (being a network OS) box. You may also find the Linux box much easier to use as the gateway box On Friday 13 July 2001 03:47, Brian Durant wrote: > Hi again, > > I still have a problem connecting my daughter's Mandrake Linux machine to > the Internet by way of a WinGate proxy server running on a Wintel Legacy > Free PC. To recap, I have set the default gateway on the Mandrake machine > to 192.168.0.1 which is the address of the WinGate machine. For some reason > the DNS is set to 192.168.0.2 Is this correct? Is workgroup.machinename > localhost.localdomain in the Win world? If this is all set up correctly, > why don't I get a connection to the Internet on the Mandrake machine? > > Cheers, > > Brian > --
