[wellylug] Linux and XP

[Jeff Hunt]

Glenn,
it sounds as if you are very close. Your ip's and gateway are all
reasonable and the mask will be 255.255.255.0 (also called 24) on all
machines.
Make sure that no other route is active by ticking the 'use this for
its resources only' box. In other words shove everything out down the
wired network. That is all you need to do except make sure the XP is
sharing its internet. I can't remember exactly how that looks but I
think Microsoft is very easy to organise.

I had forgotten you would have DHCP on an XP machine. It should work
and if it doesn't it suggests something else is astray. But static the
way you have it is fine.

Forget winmodems. They are a major undertaking. Why on earth Ubuntu
has written off a large chunk of the world like this is just weird to
contemplate. They have even stopped shipping wvdial which is essential
for getting on line. So you  can't get on line to get it so that you
can get on line. Absurd. - Dialup is special, most other connections
work out the box now.

If you have a serial port then an external modem and gnome-ppp are
pretty easy to use. But since you have a machine already on the
internet, what you are doing is the best. I did this for years with
several Ubuntu machines and it is easier now with the network manager
working much better.

Requiring IPV4 is the way to go in the short term.

On 14/01/2012, Glenn Morrissey <glennstuartmorrissey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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