Re: Internet Problem
I have tried enabling this option but it does not work. The strange
thing is that I tried connecting in a friend's house the way I'm
trying here and my laptop connected to the Internet normally. I don't
know what could be misconfigured in my Windows XP.
> I used the "share my internet connection" facility on XP when I first started
> using linux, and before I had a serial modem for my linux machine. it worked
> ok, but I wasn't too happy having to go through a Windows machine to connect
> to the Internet.
> Problem resolved now. I now have Smoothwall Express2 installed on an old
> machine, and with a serial modem, and my 2 machines on the LAN access the
> Internet through that.
>> I have a Windows XP machine connected to the Internet and an
>> additional network card with a fixed IP configured (192.168.0.5). I
>> connected a crossover network cable to my laptop in which I installed
>> Debian Sarge 3.1. I configured the network in /etc/network/interfaces
>> passing the correct configuration for each option like static IP
>> 192.186.0.10 gateway 192.168.0.5 and the DNS servers of my Internet
>> Service Provider. I can ping normally the IP 192.168.0.5 but my
>> browser can't navigate the web. I passed inside Mozilla's preferences
>> that it's a direct connection to the Internet. I even disabled Windows
>> XP Firewall but it seems to have no effect either. My Windows XP
>> machine has TrendMicro OfficeScan installed but I don't know if it
>> could prevent any connection through the network. I also contacted my
>> ISP asking if both DNS numbers were changed and they said both numbers
>> are still the same. What could be a possible problem and what I could
>> try to do to solve it?
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Henrique
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