On Wednesday 29 May 2002 4:13 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was trying to share my cable connection in win2000 sstem(which turns out > I lost my help files acouple of week,s ago) with mandrake 8.2.I installed > to 2 card in the 2000 system went thur the auto shareing dos promting the > system I got the card ad DNS nothing > IP address 192.168.01 > sub mast 255.255.255.0 > gateway nothing > running auto config in linux I got > gateway 192.168.01 > ip address 192.168.01 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > protocol DHCP > start on boot yes > I know there is are thing wrong here because it does seem to work but as I > said I,m missing my help files.Can anyone see what needs changeing.
This may be stating the obvious, but you do know you have to either use a special crossover cable between the two computers, or else connect them both to a hub don't you? Before you get too deep into changing configuration options just check that the command 'ping ip_add_of the_other_computer' works from a root terminal in Linux, and a command Window in Windows. The reason I suggest this is because even when you have a crossover cable, if the network adapters default to 100Mbps then depending on the quality of the cable you may not have a reliable connection. (I have seen that too many times to be funny :( ) (To get a root terminal just open a normal terminal type su <Enter> and then give the root password. No need to actually log in as root which is frowned upon) HTH derek
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