hi
i want to share my internet connection in linux with windows computers ,how shd i do that ,im using suse linux 10.0

First of all in what stage are you?.
Do you have net adapters and connection between computers?.
(is, for example, Samba working?)

hi
actually we got an internet connection connected to windows xp which is shared ,which i can access in linux,due to some reason i have to shift the internet connection to my pc and i want it to share it with others who r in windows while im in linux,now we got provider which has give me a program in linux thru which i can login to my broadband connection.The connection is given to us is thru ethernet card so any machine which shares internet connection has two ethernet card,one for internet conection other for internal lan.now how do share this in linux .
thanking in advance for u r help

OK, but can you ping both ways?. From computer which has internet
connection (if I understand correctly - Linux) to the other computer
(Win) and the other way around?. Internet is working on Linux,
is that true?.

no basically i want to know the procedure how u share the internet connection in linux ,anyways on internal lan i can ping both ways.

You may have problem with firewall.
Try this (but first you must check what interface your card is
using for example 'eth0'):

enter:

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

and

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

as root in your shell in Linux.

Then open some website on Windows computer.

I have written an article about this very thing. If you follow it, you will be able to share your Internet connection in SUSE 10.0. The article is located on Novell's CoolSolutions website.

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HI, i got a similar problem, and i cant success.
In my main pc i got wifi conection from some open AP, now i wont to share this internet conection with laptop, i trying a lot of methods but didnt success, i try this but nothing... i ping each other pc and work eth0 conection, but still cant share wlan0.
Both my computers ar runing at ubuntu, one is at 10.04 second is on 10.10.



P.S. i try it from windows xp i start with my main pc in wix xp i share it without problem to ubuntu 10.04 (laptop).

Plz help.

Does the wireless connection work? Supply networking config info for both hosts. Describe what you have done on both machines. Provide the ifconfig command output, and the contents of the ifcfg_wlan0 and ifcfg_eth0.

If the second computer has wireless, then connect the same way, directly to the same AP.

If the second computer doesn't, describe the connection between the two computers, Switch or crossover cable. One option is to enable masquerading on the first computer, where the first computer is a DHCP/NAT server for the second.

Another option is to subnet your local network, and enable port forwarding. The AP in this case supplies the NAT translation. I have done this at one time, to provide my desktop Internet access. I used 192.168.1.100/255.255.255.128 on my laptop wireless, 192.168.1.130/255.255.255.128 on eth0;
192.168.1.131/255.255.255.128 on my desktop. The one snag I ran into was that I needed to load the conntrack kernel module before port forwarding worked.

Yes wifi conection work well,

this is the output from main pc of ifconfig

this is the output from my laptop pc
both pc i was ping and working i made static ip adress

i solved my problem, i just need to set up at another pc dinamic ip adress. Everything works well.