[wellylug] Linux and XP

[Jeff Hunt]

File sharing is different to internet sharing. You don't need extra software.
Try not to give up. Like most of these things it is just a few
commands in the right place and it goes.
My advice for the Ubunutu machine is correct that all you need to to
is change the gateway and route so the machine looks at the XP
machine. Search for those on your network manager. Slightly trickier
will be to get the XP sharing but I think it is built in to the
network manager.
I'm in Khandallah on 4796123 if you want a demonstration or verbal
help. I also have an external modem to borrow if you go that way.

-J

On 13/01/2012, Glenn Morrissey <glennstuartmorrissey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Tim and Jeff, I appreciate your quick response.
>
> I did download and transfer scanmodem to my Linux machine via a
> usbstick, and did manage to run it. Took a look at the output and
> thought perhaps for a moment it was an error on my part in installing
> Linux...
> I will digest it and try and make some sense of what scanmodem is
> telling me, but I do imagine it is going to take some time to do so.
>
> I don't know where to start when dealing with I.P addressing. There is
> got to be something in there that I need to assign or set, honestly I
> just don't know what. At a basic level I can ping either machine from
> (a) terminal in Linux and (b) command prompt in XP. Although,
> curiously, I cant get a ping from the Network Tools Application in
> Linux.
>
> There has to be sense in there somewhere since when the Asus is booted
> with Vista, I can fileshare between Vista and XP, although, equally
> curiously, I cant manage to get either machine to share an internet
> connection, no matter which machine I tell to share its internet
> connection.
>
> I do understand, hopefully correctly, that you need Samba to fileshare
> in Linux, but to install Samba I need to download the packages and to
> do that, I need (somehow) to connect to the internet.
>
> Thank you all.
> Glenn.
>
>
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