[wellylug] Linux and XP

[Glenn Morrissey]

Thanks Roger

I'll revisit the IP4 settings under Linux when I get home this
evening, although I'm pretty certain that I have already tried IP4 set
to obtain DHCP automatically and it didn't want to know. the only
setting that the machine would accept was manual setting, I had to set
the IP4 to 192.168.0.2 since my XP machine is 192.168.0.1. The netmask
is 255.255.255.0 and the default gateway is 192.168.0.1. And IP6 set
to 'ignore'. Nothing in DNS on either machine.

I have tried with the 'Require IP4 addressing for this connection to
complete' tick box both ticked and unticked and it didn't seem to make
any difference.
But I do have a question. Should the netmask be different on each
machine or does that not matter? I didn't know what to put in the
'routes' box so I haven't put anything.

As I said earlier, I managed to network Vista and XP together to share
files and music, but I haven't managed to get them to share an
Internet connection.

Thank you.
Glenn.