Re: Internet Connection Sharing

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

vinz (<vince@webonline.co.za>) wrote:

> I'm using windows XP with the dial up account on that.  I know it's a
> backwards operation but my debian system never authenticates a
> conncetion
> for the internet.  So I can never dial with it.

What program do you youse to dial in? Have you tried to set the auth
option in /etc/ppp/options to noauth?

> What I can't seem to get working is the internet on the debian system
> with the gateway pointing to my Windows XP System... are their scripts
> of something that I need to load or how do I fix this.

Can you ping the windows system? Can you ping IP addresses on the
internet? If yes, did you tell your Debian system which nameservers to
use?

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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