"James H. Carter & Cybèle de Jong" wrote:
Read ALL the books..am still confused...
....Have a Network of PC working under SAMBA ....Want to connect these to the web.... ....Can I do this using a dynamically assigned account from DEMON? If the intranet addresses are 192.168.1.1 etc What do I call the Router and the intranet card the router is attached to? 0.0.0.0?
James Carter
Just thought I would chip in here if that's allowed. I have an HP 486/50DX with 24 Meg RAM in my loft. I use it as my router / DNS server / DHCP server It is running with a 120Meg Hard disc in it. This is simply because it is more reliable than running from floppy. However the software ( Freesco ) can and does easily run from a floppy. It has an external modem for dial up to my ISP ( NTL ) and an ethernet card for my 'intranet' The network card has an address of 192.168.1.1 and the dialup connection receives its IP address from the ISP dynamically. This could be set manually. It does the network address translation for a WIn95 box and a dual boot Win98 / Linux box without any trouble. They receive their IP addresses from the 486 dynamically in the range 192.168.1.2 - 254 If you have a lot of PC's connected to the router you can put a second ( or third ) network card in it and split you network up. Freesco is free to all. See http://www.fresco.com for more info. best wishes norman