Marcia, Sorry for the delay - have been setting up a broadband for myself and newbie has taken a back seat the last couple of days. Sounds like you are just about set hardware-wise and with 8.2 the software side should be a breeze.
I think all you need to add is a cross-over network cable. i.e. just like the cable you have from the desktop to the cable modem, but with some of the wires connected differently at one end. You can get one of these at your friendly computer store. Now, do I understand correctly that you can connect the desktop to the cable modem via USB? First step (after you have your crossover cable) is to do this and make sure you have internet on the desktop without anything connected to the ethernet card. Now plug the crossover cable between the laptop and desktop ethernet ports. Now run Control Center > Network & Internet > Connection Sharing It will warn you that you must have a dedicated device to do this - that's fine. It will set up eth0 (your ethernet interface) to static address 192.168.0.1 and enable Masquerading. Set your laptop IP address to either DHCP or 192.168.0.2 (I prefer the latter as static addresses give less room for problems). All other network settings on the laptop should be empty. At this point you should have internet access on both machines. You may then choose to tighten up security a little by running InteractiveBastille, but even without that you are much less visible and vulnerable than before. InteractiveBastille will ask a lot of questions while providing a lot of info on how to answer them. You'll learn a bit and end up with a secure environment at the same time. Good luck and have fun! Brian On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 03:47, Marcia wrote: > Dear Brian, > > On Sunday 12 May 2002 07:48 pm, you wrote: > > Marcia, > > > > I have seen some replies to this, but don't think any of them have yet > > touched on a crucial point: Your laptop is running W98, so would > > therefore be much more safely disposed sitting behind your linux box in > > internet terms. > > I agree with you here. I would like to do this but am a newbie here and > really do not know how to do that. I have been reading for months about it, > however, it has taken awhile to approach this for me. > > > > > > Does the laptop have an ethernet port, or can it be added? > Yes, the laptop has an ethernet port and 2 USB ports. My new Toshiba DOCSIS > cable modem has both an ethernet port and USB port so I hooked up my desktop > with LM8.2 to the ethernet port and my laptop with dualboot Win98/LM8.2 is > hooked up to the modem through USB. They both connect to the internet just > fine and to my surprise even the LM8.2 is on the internet through the USB. I > have been able to ping from LM8.2 on my desktop to Win98 on my laptop. I have > not tried pinging from LM8.2 on my laptop to LM8.2 on my desktop yet. I > thought of using VNC to use the Powerpoint program on my LM8.2 desktop if > that is possible. My husband prefers using the desktop and wishes to become > proficient with Powerpoint for his work. > > > > mind the best scenario would be for the laptop to be connected to the > > linux machine via ethernet - just a crossover cable between the two > > would do this. Then you set up internet connection sharing and firewall > > on the linux box. Add samba and you have the laptop able to share the > > cable connection from behind a firewall, and move files/share printers > > between the two machines. > > I would love to do this and probably can right now if I figure out how to set > it up. > > > > Assuming that neither box has a network card (as you indicated the cable > > modem is connected via USB), total cost for this would be almost nothing > > for a NIC for the desktop and somewhat more for the laptop. Like my > > budgeting? > > Actually both computers have a network card. The desktop also has a dial up > modem which I do not use and the laptop has 2 dial up modems. I am able to > use the cox cable internet from LM8.2 on the laptop through the USB > connection. That was a pleasant surprise. > > My goal here is to be able to network all of my systems and to possibly use > ipmasquerade so that Win98 can be used on the net through Linux. These are > the things I need help with since I do not know exactly what to do yet. > > Thanks very much for your suggestions and help. > > Sincerely, > > Marcia > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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