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so what was your setup? were you getting any error messages? what is the result of "ifconfig" ? is your ethernet card recognised, are the modules loaded? ..........................
I have freshly installed RedHat 9 as standard. I can ping my XP machine from Linux and access its shares.
Linux machine is connected to XP machine via a crossover cable, network card to network card.
XP machine is connected to a cable modem via USB and is working fine. I have even enabled ICS to see if that works, also I have made an entry in my firewall for linux box.
No error messages except, "Can not resolve host" when trying to goto URL...
Are you running dhcpd on the linux machine? Theres some netbios stuff that needs to go into the /etc/dhcpd.conf file to send nameservers to the windows machine.
This works for me.....XP has a modem attached and I use wingate to share the connection. On the linux boxes I assign the XP box as the gateway and assign my ISP's DNS IP as the DNS server. This also works for other windoze machines to share from the XP box. (using wingate may be cheating but hey it makes it very easy....is there a similar opensource program to run for linux??)
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