Kyle Edbauer wrote:
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.
Thanx! That sounds like something I could use. So I went to look at the documentation and set the Kernel up according to its directions. I then used Yast to change the configuration files to enable masquerading. Still can't get the connection:-( But, I did discover that Suse has SMP already in, just needed to be activated and reconfigured. I did that, did the init 1... init 2 thing and boom, I could access all the file areas and printers on the linux box as virtual drives:-) Not real happy with the printer tho, it has a problem printing in landscape mode:-( But for most printouts, it does work pretty well:-) I still got the not authorized error when I tried to access the internet from my win95 machine. I think it may have something to do with trying to go thru Apache? I saw some instructions on how to set up Apache as a proxy server but couldn't find the source files to do the reconfiguration and recompile with:-(
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.
BTW, is it necessary to activate RARP? My internet connection is a dynamically generated number. How do you set that up in the masquerade? From what I understand of Masquerading, I want the packets to come to my Linux box and then the Linux box reroutes them to the actual machine? Thanx Loads!+ -- cya l8r Leon McClatchey <A HREF="mailto:leonmcclatchey@homemail.com">mailto:leonmcclatchey@homemail.com</A> Party on Linux:-) -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e