[wellylug] Internet sharing between XP and Ubuntu 11.04

[Glenn Morrissey]

Hello All

Ive just installed Ubuntu 11.04 to a partition on my Rather dated Asus
X50RL laptop. It installed great and works really well, but I do have
a few issues with the whole thing.
I have to use the local Library for Internet access by day, and to be
fair, Ubuntu is great, detects the wireless network straight away and
connects no problems. Cant install packages though, I think the
library people have blocked that connection.

My main problem is thus: I really need to connect with it at home, but
I only have an internal 56K modem, and discovered that Ubuntu doesn't
do dial up. I have a Acer desktop thats running XP, and have a switch
to connect the two machines, which I use when the Notebook is booted
under Vista.

I tried to get the machines to communicate with my nonexistent
networking knowledge, and they do ping each other, but no more. I need
to know what I need to configure on each machine to make it happen,
surely it must be possible. I've tried with the Ubuntu documentation
and others about modifying certain files but I always strike problems,
and really I just don't know what I am doing.

Someone please help.

Glenn.