On Wed, 29 May 2002, s wrote: > On Thursday 30 May 2002 07:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I tryed to connect direct to my cable modem with no luck then everone is > > suggesting just connect to the windows 2000 system(which I have in the same > > room) O.K with that I tryed but with about the same luck but I didn,t > > install samba I need to go back and install it for that to work wouldn,t > > I???? > > No, you won't need samba just for internet access. You'll need to set up > internet connection sharing in w2k and config your nic in mandrake. But man, > is that backwards or what? I haven't been following your problem, but I > would try harder on the linux side first. > -s >
amen to that! its far easier to setup connection sharing on Mandrake then on Win2K. the only problem here would be that you'd need to have the win2k box and anything else behind the mandrake box that is sharing the connection with the others acting as a gateway. Mark
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