> > > >I did this a while back when I was at my brother's. > > > >Fist you have to enable sharing of the internet connection in Windows > >XP, don't remember > >exactly where to find that option... > > > >Then you have to tell your Linux machine to use the XP machine as a gateway: > > > >route add default gw 192.168.0.1 dev eth0 > > > >(Assuming the card in your XP machine that connects to your Linux > >machine has IP 192.168.0.1, and the Linux machine's ethernet card is > >eth0) > > > >Make sure you have some nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf and you should be > >good > >to go. > > > > > >cheers, > >Christian > > Do I need to fill in an IP address for the gateway in WindowsXP too? :-/ >
No. There should be an option in the Network/Internet config called something like "Allow other computers to use the internet connection". There might have been some sub-options once that is enabled, but it was all pretty obvious as far as I remember. > Right now I'm going to look in the > /etc/resolv.conf to see if I can find how to fix > a nameserver, shouldn't be that hard, I think.. > Usually your Internet Provider's website has the info somewhere. For example my /etc/resolv.conf looks like this: nameserver 217.237.149.161 nameserver 217.237.151.225 There also should be a propper way to get DNS information from the XP machine, but I don't know how that works... cheers, Christian
