ICS with a WinXP box

[nathan]

hi all

ive just installed fedora on my laptop (ip - 192.168.0.30, subnet - 255.255.255.0, gateway - 192.168.0.1). I want the laptop to be able to access the 56k dialup internet connection on my main machine (which must remain a windows box so no use linux to serve answers please :) ) The main machine has the following settings (ip - 192.168.0.29, subnet - 255.255.255.0, gateway - 192.168.0.1). I have the two machines talking over samba, but the linux machine isnt picking up the shared internet connection. Is there a tutorial or something that can help me fix this??

cheers

nathan

[kbradl1]

I have a similar setup and Linux does not need to be configured to use Windows ICS - it just uses it.

First I would fix the problem with your default gateway. Your linux box should use the Windows box as its default gateway.

What I would do is hardcode the Windows box to have an IP address of 192.168.0.1. Since the linux box has a default gateway of 192.168.0.1, it will default to sending data to the XP box.

Now that that is fixed, I believe ICS doesn't act as a DNS server so you may be having DNS issues. From linux try to ping an IP address on the Internet. If that works, try to ping its DNS name. If that doesn't work, then you need to find the DNS servers the Dial-up connection uses and put them on the linux box. So on windows do an "ipconfig /all" to find the ip addresses of the DNS servers. Then add the IP addresses for the DNS servers to the network properties of your linux box. Hopefully it will then start working.

If it does not work, then I would turn off any firewalls you have on Windows XP or linux and try again.