Leon McClatchey writes:
I finally succeeded in getting my network running between Win95 and Linux:-) Now, I want to be able to access the internet from the Win95 machine via my Linux Box. (My Linux Box is the only machine that has an outside connection). I have set up the Win95 Box to access the internet via a "proxy server" with the address for my Linux Box as the "Proxy server". But, when I try to make the connection, I get a big display saying that I am not authorized to access whatever site thru this server.
Question, What all is involved in setting the Linux Box up as a proxy server?
I'd appreciate any hints and pointers that could help in getting this little problem solved:-)
I set up something like that using IP Masquerading. It's a kernel option. I think that there is some info on it in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/Masquerading. It lets the other two win 95 machines use my dialup connection while I'm using the connection. It's really cool. It sends the right packets to the right machines automagically. Although 3 people sharing one modem does slow things down on occasion. If you set up diald, your linux machine will start up your internet connection whenever it gets a request from any of the machines for a machine that you can't resolve in your hosts file. Hope this helps. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e