Using a shared internet connection from Win 2003 Server?

piraya · 10-24-2004, 09:04 AM

I am trying to set up a linux box on an IBM Thinkpad, using the SUSE 8.2 Pro edition.

I have a home network set up with a Windows 2003 Server box.

The Win box has a ISDN connection to the internet - I have set up connection sharing for this box, and it works fine for the other Windows boxes in my network. It also has DHCP and DNS, and I set up the Windows clients to use 192.168.0.1 as default gateway and DNS server. This works fine.

But when I try to get internet access from the Linux box, i cannot get it. I can ping the other Windows boxes in the network from the Linux box, but when I try to ping an internet address from it, i cannot (I tried both the name and the IP address of the external server, but no luck).

Evidently, the linux box is able to make requests to the DNS server, because when I try to ping the external server, it is able to find out that the IP address is 193.69.165.21.

I have followed the standard setup for SUSE without any modifications, and the network card has been correctly identified. I have tried setting up both DHCP and static address setups for the network card, and in both cases i can contact the main server and the other clients on the network, but no internet addresses.

Is there some additional settings i have to make to get the shared internet connection working? I hope someone are able to help me - I wouldn't like to be discouraged from starting with Linux just because of some silly configuration problem!

acid_kewpie · 10-24-2004, 09:11 AM

just looks like you've not set the gateway of the linux box to be the 2003 server IP.

if you run "route" you'll get something like this:

Code:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0       127.0.0.1       255.0.0.0       UG    0      0        0 lo
0.0.0.0         192.168.0.99    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

But presumably without anythign matching the last line. if so then use route again to add it

Code:

route add default gw 192.168.0.1

and i'm sure that yast can so this too...

piraya · 10-24-2004, 09:17 AM

I try to run route from wshell, but get "route: command not found".

I have used YAST and set the default gateway to 192.168.0.1, but still the same problem.

piraya · 10-24-2004, 10:07 AM

Hi Acid_Kewpie!

I fooled around a little, finally was able to use route, followed yours instructions, and now it works!

Thanx a lot for the help!

:-)

acid_kewpie · 10-24-2004, 11:08 AM

no problem. now if you wouldn't mind passing your billing address onto we can procede with payment for this successful support request.