Hi,
I live in the country and am stuck with dial up to my ISP. There are a couple of PCs in our house that need to share the connection.

I've long since given up on trying to share from a Linux box. Trying to read through the obfuscation that passes as 'instructions' simply makes my old head spin and hurt. Better to do this from the point and click of Windoze so as to preserve my sanity and keep the blood pressure low.

Anyway, I'm now running SuSe 9.3 and have read that Yast is supposed make these matters relatively simple, but I can't find any explanations anywhere.

In particular, I'd like the same set up as under Windows, i.e. the modem dials up on demand without anyone needing to log in.

Does anyone know if these matters are documented?

Or maybe there are some things that are simply more simple on Windows?

TIA

I don't have anything set up like that but had a look at the SuSe manual. Seems on the host machine you set up the dial up connection as normal, edit a couple of options in /etc/smpppd.conf, make sure port 3185 is open on your internal network interface, start up smpppd, use kinternet on the client and in it's menu->settings->various settings->Server put in the appropriate ip address, password etc. of where smpppd is running. You can also use SLP to advertise the service aswell but seeing as I can't try any of this out on my setup there are probably a few other things to be done. It's on pages 414-416 of SuSe 9.3 manuals if you have them.