On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 15:27 -0600, David Hoffman wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 19:17:16 -0200, Leandro Melo <ltcmelo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi. > > I want to share an internet connection between my computers. I don't > > have a hub, so it's just a p2p network (just an ethernet cable). > > The computer that hosts the connection runs Fedora and the one i want > > to share the connection with runs windows xp. > > Can anyone suggest a guide or tutorial for doing this? Will i have to > > use samba for that? > > > > -- > > Leandro > > > > You are saying you want to share an INTERNET connection between the > two. So the assumption is that you mean to connect your Fedora machine > to the internet and want your XP machine to be able to use that > connection. If that is the case, then you probably want to have two > NIC cards in the Fedora machine, one for the network connection to the > net (unless you are doing dialup) and another for a different network > segment to the XP machine. > > I would suggest googling for How-To information on NAT and IP Masquerading. http://www.brennan.id.au/ (Linux Home Server HOWTO) is a good start and will probably cover everything you need and much more. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
