Internet sharing?
 

Dear All
My centos 5.6 firewall server shares its Internet connection with my windows machine behind it. After the required settings, the windows machine can ping valid ip addresses but it cannot browse valid url (despite the fact that DNS is set for it). Can you please give me a hint?
Thank you

You need to provide more useful information if we are to help you. You should be providing actual error messages etc. What does "cannot browse" mean? What actually happens? If pinging is working then web pages should be also, from the linux side of things, unless you have iptables rules blocking it. Do you?

I have set eth0 @192.168.10.114 and eth0:1 @172.18.128.1 . The windows machine ip @172.18.209.1
I have activated ip forwarding in /etc/sysctl.conf 'net.ipv4.ip_forward=1' . I run 'sysctl -p' to reload settings . I issued the following command to share internet :
#iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
On windows machine, I set its default GW as @172.18.128.1 . I set DNS for the windows machine like the ones set on centos . The windows machine can ping valid ip but cannot browse valid url.

restating the question isn't useful. show us your "iptables -Lnv" output

Please find attached the required log.

well that looks fine, I'd say the issue is probably on windows.

Sorry. What can be done on the windows machine side?

Maybe it's configured to use a proxy?

I would suggest trying to telnet to www.linuxquestions.org on port 80 from the windows machine and see if that connects.

On windows machine , the following command is unsuccessful:
C:\telnet www.linuxquestions.org 80
But if I do it like the following, it is successful:
C:\telnet 75.126.162.205 80
What can I do next?

Sounds like DNS then.

Hello,

you should check the DNS-settings on the Windowsmachine. could you please post the output offrom the Windowsmachine?

Or look at "Networks"->"property of the Networkconnection" (I don't know the english menueentries)

Markus

Please find attached the required log.

What do you get when you try to access your Linux share using the Linux machine's IP address from Windows?

If that works try adding this line to your Windows hosts file.

Windows Host file by default found at:
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts:
Replace [ipaddress] (drop the brackets) with the ipaddress of your Linux machine. Replace the [hostname] with the hostname of your Linux machine.

-- L. James

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L. D. James
ljames@apollo3.com
www.apollo3.com/~ljames

I tried to edit and change the windows hosts file you mentioned but the system returned 'access denied' .

what linux share? Why would they want to be editing hosts files???