[wellylug] Internet sharing between XP and Ubuntu 11.04
Jeff Hunt
jeffhunt90 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 16:56:30 NZDT 2012
In my experience dialup on Ubuntu is a nightmare unless you have an
external modem.
To network out to the internet you need to pass the IP address of
your Ubuntu machine through the XP machine. Linux calls it IP
Masquerading and Microsoft (I think) calls it internet sharing.
I think there are three main steps.
1. Temporarily stop the Ubuntu using its wireless as a path out by
ticking the option 'use this connection only for resources on its
network' which is on the routes button on the wireless tab.
2. Set the gateway of the Ubuntu machine on the wired tab of the
network manager to the IP address of the XP machine.
3. Set the XP machine to share its network. This will be something
buried deep probably under IPV4 settings or something like that.
This is just some starting ideas. I expect you will get more explicit
advice from someone who has actually done Linux to Microsoft. I've
only gone the other way. But the principle is correct.
On 13/01/2012, Tim McNamara <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz> wrote:
> I'm not sure too much about the network configuration, however Ubuntu
> is able to do dial up just fine. See
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DialupModemHowto
>
>
>
> On 13 January 2012 15:14, Glenn Morrissey
> <glennstuartmorrissey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
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