Re: Sharing the internet connection with XP

[Björn Johansson <bjorn.johansson@4a-consulting.com>]

At 00:03 2005-07-27, you wrote:
> On 7/26/05, Björn Johansson <bjorn.johansson@4a-consulting.com> wrote:
> >
> > I can't afford to buy a router right now, so that's out of the question.
> > I have made progress! Now I can transfer files
> > through ftp from the pc to mac at the
> > same time as the pc has access to the internet.
> >
> > To make the mac share the internet through 
> the pc, to make that work, people
> > have told me that I should use the pc as a gateway. So perhaps I need to
> > create an static ip for gateway on the pc and 
> then I tell the mac to use that
> > gateway address in the network.
> >
>
> What IP does the network card in the PC have now?
>
> From your previous mail I see that the Mac is on 192.168.0.246 with
> netmask 255.255.255.0. Since you can already "talk" to the PC, that
> means the PC's card is on 192.168.0.???. That is the IP you want to
> set as the gateway on your Mac! To test this, use "route":
>
> route add default gw 192.168.0.??? dev eth0
>
> Now you should be able to reach the Internet... try:
>
> ping 194.109.137.218
>
> which is www.debian.org.
>
> If it doesn't work, check the connection sharing options in Windows XP.
>
> Once this basic connection works, you can set it all up proper in
> /etc/network/interfaces.
>
> cheers,
> Christian

Since I can ftp both ways. Right now I know that I can't access the pc through
the mac because I don't have an ftp server running on the pc, but that's easy
to fix, so I assume this is working also. Ftp from the pc to the mac, there I
am 100% sure it works!

Do I haveto install a special program or something so that the WindowsXP
system can allow the mac to use the PC modem to access the internet? :-/

Kind regards
Björn