El lun, 17-09-2007 a las 02:44 -0400, Aaron Kulkis escribió:
Alfredo Cole-Tuchler wrote:
Hi:
I have a Windows machine which connects to the internet using a Sony Ericsson GPRS card. The internet connection is configured as shared. Using Outlook Express I can send and receive email using my accounts as follows:
1. Gmail 2. pop.secureserver.net port 110 and smtpout.secureserver.net port 80
I have another box running openSUSE 10.2 that is configures to use the Windows machine as its internet gateway. I can surf the web ok, and I can send and receive mail using Evolution from the Gmail account, but not the other account. This box has no firewall in place and DNS is confiured the same as the Windows machine (an external DNS server).
I would appreciate it if someone could point to some docs I could read to fix this problem.
Thank you and best regards.
-- Alfredo Cole-Tuchler Tegucigalpa, Honduras
I would put the Linux machine on the direct internet connection, and the Windows machine should use the Linux machine as a gateway.
Personally, I don't trust Windows to behave as it is supposed to when dealing with any other O/S. M$ has a long LONG reputation for deliberately fucking up non-MS platforms whenever they can get away with it (see M$'s attemp to hijack Java -- court had to ORDER them to rename it (now C#... yet another deliberate act to create confusion -- this time with C++ -- among decision-makers who might not be technically proficient enough to recognize the difference (hand written "c++" and "c#" look like they could be referring to the same thing).
Also, a Windows machine directly connected to the internet without a firewall is just BEGGING for trouble. I wouldn't be surprised if it's spewing spam 24 hours/day.
I live in a rural area, and the only way to connect to the internet is through this wireless GPRS card. The software that drives it is windows-only, and I could not get it to work with Linux. Some help, or a step-by-step instruction to use under Linux would be appreciated. Windows has a firewall in place, and I have managed to solve the problem now by changing the value for MTU on the Linux side. Don't know why for sure, but that did the trick. I can now surf, check and send mail, do updates, etc. Thank you and regards. -- Alfredo Cole-Tuchler Tel. 251-8572 Tegucigalpa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org