Networking on/off-line.

[jd? <durajes@charlie.cns.iit.edu>]

Greetings all,

Here's the scenario....

five machines, 

1 - dedicated debian box
2 - dual boot (one laptop w/debian&win95, 1 box w/debian&win98)
1 - win nt 4 workstation box
1 - win 98 box

this is the desired mode of operation:

i would like to setup an intranet of sorts.  I've gone through most of the
networking mini-HOWTOs...ip-masq, intranet, etc. but i'm a bit confused.
i would like to connect all of the machines together (already done) with
samba but i would also like to setup an internet connection via a modem on
a debian box with ip masq but the ip that this box obtains is dynamic from
my dialup.  This is where my confusion arises....how do i need to setup
the other non-deb boxes so that they may surf the net also?  DHCP?

On the other hand , when off-line hand i would also like to be able to let
users on the non-deb boxes to
telnet to the deb boxes when off-line.  (Can you tell i'm new to this
networking thingy? ;))  Is this possible?
if so just point me in the right direction!!!

Regards,

jd?