Internet Connection Sharing
Hi, I have 2 pcs. One PC is running purely Redhat 9. The other one is running RH9 while dual booting with WinME. I wanted to share the internet connection between the two PCs. Obviously the machine that is solely running RH9 is going to be my gateway while the dual booting pc is going to be my client.
From what info I have gathered is that I will have to install 2 NICs in my gateway(it already has 1). And I need to use SAMBA to share my files over my internal LAN. The two PCs arent too far apart. They are just about 20feet or so apart. I had connected my PCs in a LAN a while ago but thats when I had M$ WinME running on both systems. So I already have the cabling and other stuff.
Now I just need to know:
1. how to go about configuring the NICs on both my machines.
2. how to share files over my internal LAN using SAMBA in both Linux -> Linux and Linux -> Windows configurations.
3. how to share my internet again in both Linux -> Linux and Linux -> Windows configurations.
4. how to secure SAMBA against unauthorised access into my systems.
The Linux -> Linux and Linux -> Windows configuration means, that I have the gateway running Linux while the other machine might be running the Windows OS or Linux OS =P.
PS.: This is just a side question, but I have 2 old PCs which I can use as the gateway. One is a P3(450MHz, 192MB RAM) and the other is a P1(166MHz, 64MB RAM). I am planning to keep the gateway on 24x7. I might rarely shut it down or reboot. So from the power consumption and performance point of view which machine should I use?
[Edit] What is IP masquerading?
Last edited by basix; 06-23-2004 at 12:49 PM.
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