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Hi linux users.
I have been using linux for about a month and think it's great. I have got one pc running Fedora Core 4 and another unfortunately running windows xp. I have a netgear router, and I am wondering how to network my 2 computers together.
Please remember that I am still a !!!!
If you'd like to share the internet from your WIn box to the Linux one, enable Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) on your win box.
Test the internet on your linux box by browsing a website or simply run konsole (assuming you're on KDE), or any shell, and issue this command "ping linuxquestions.org", without the quotes!
If you don't get something like this ::
PING linuxquestions.org (64.179.4.149) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from web1.linuxquestions.org (64.179.4.149): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=403 ms
64 bytes from web1.linuxquestions.org (64.179.4.149): icmp_seq=2 ttl=46 time=376 ms
Then you should do some tweaking on your Linux box to divert the traffic to your win box.
Run this in your shell :: route add default gw 192.168.0.1
Note that 192.168.0.1 is the IP address of the win box, which will act as your gateway.
If everything worked, or not, post back so that people with the same question can know that this solved your issue.
Thanks for replying guys.
The internet already works, exept I can't seem to share files between the 2 machines.
When I click on the computer icon on my desktop, and then the network icon, there is a windows network icon. When I click on this, nothing happens, and I can not see any files.
I think you have to enable SAMBA on your linux box? I still don't know how to do it because I am also newbie but I think that's the solution. (Not very sure) I'll be watching this thread, I also want to know how to do it.
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