[wellylug] Internet sharing between XP and Ubuntu 11.04

[Roger Searle]

I am assuming that your XP box is/can dial up to the internet too. While 
I haven't done this since Windows 98 days, this was pretty simple, just 
google for Internet Connection Sharing in XP and follow that.  Your 
network card on the XP box is then assigned a static IP address which 
used to be 192.168.0.1 under win98.  It becomes your gateway for the 
rest of your network connected to the switch.

On the Ubuntu box, you should just be able to set the network card IPv4 
settings to obtain it's address automatically (via DHCP) and be good to 
go.  DNS should be via the XP box too so if you have something set for 
DNS remove it.  Turn off it's wireless unless your switch is actually 
some sort of wireless access point.

Once you close out of the network dialog box, check your network 
configuration using "ifconfig -a", DNS via "cat /etc/resolv.conf" and 
that you can ping your XP box again.  Then, can you "ping www.google.com"?

Cheers,
Roger



On 13/01/12 15:14, Glenn Morrissey 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.
>
>