Heres the story:
I have just installed Mandrake 9.0 on my PC (I am a major n00b at Drake having only just decided to learn linux). It is installed on a secondary partition on my XP drive and is booting up perfectly.
This PC is a client on the network connecting to the internet through an XP box via a crossover cable.
I am able to ping the server and telnet to my linux box from the server but I cannot for the life of me get my linux box to connect to the internet through my XP server. I also have no clue as to what I am doing wrong. I have setup the network giving static IPs etc. BUt for some reason, it doesn't wanna connect to the net. Is this due to the fact that linux and xp are incompatable with each other or what?
BTW: Love Linux, from what I have learnt so far, it is much more powerful than windows will ever be. :thumb:
I have just installed Mandrake 9.0 on my PC (I am a major n00b at Drake having only just decided to learn linux). It is installed on a secondary partition on my XP drive and is booting up perfectly.
This PC is a client on the network connecting to the internet through an XP box via a crossover cable.
I am able to ping the server and telnet to my linux box from the server but I cannot for the life of me get my linux box to connect to the internet through my XP server. I also have no clue as to what I am doing wrong. I have setup the network giving static IPs etc. BUt for some reason, it doesn't wanna connect to the net. Is this due to the fact that linux and xp are incompatable with each other or what?
BTW: Love Linux, from what I have learnt so far, it is much more powerful than windows will ever be. :thumb:
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