You are suggesting a highly irregular setup. Usually, you want the notebook to be portable. Does the notebook have 2 network cards in it? Why have you chosen it as the internet portal? Linux would make a much better portal.
On Friday 07 December 2001 07:25 am, you wrote: > Hi... > > I want my windows laptop to be the gateway to allow my linux machines to > connect to the internet. > I also need each machine to be able to ftp to any other machine thro the > ethernet cables and hub. (cat5e 100mbps) > I'm going mad here trying to find non-confusing information to set this up. > I've spent a week trying with no luck. > > I have a laptop running windows ME. > It's IP is set as 192.168.0.1 > I have six machines each running mandrake 8.0. > Their IP's are set as 192.168.0.2 - 192.168.0.7 > > On the laptop TCP/IP Properties window: What should the settings be? ie, > the bindings/advanced/netbios/dns configuration/gateway/WINS > configuration/IP address > > On each linux machine, using linuxconf as root: what settings should be > made? > > Simple idiot-proof help would be greatly appreciated. > > many thanks > magnet
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