Toby Jaffey toby@earth.li wrote:
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 02:18:37PM +0000, bsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
I have a machine running Debian 2.2 which can be connected to the internet via a modem.
This is part of a small network. One of the other machines on the network can use the above machine as a gateway and connect successfully to web sites using a browser when running Linux.
If the same (secondary) machine is running Windows 95 it cannot connect to any web sites via the Linux gateway machine although
the
gateway address is set correctly in the network configuration on
the
secondary machine.
Clearly the '95 machine cannot connect beyond the gateway, but can it connect *to* it? Does pinging it work?
The gateway machine can be pinged successfully. The network in all other respects works as expected.
If it does, have you checked that DNS is set up correctly in '95?
Having looked at the DNS setup window I must admit that I don't know what to put in the Host and Domain fields. I am not running a DNS server so DNS lookups are done through my ISP. As far as I can remember when I set up the same machine running Linux all I had to do was to add a gateway address line in the network setup. I thought that doing the same for W95 would work.
Does using numerical addresses work?
No!
Barry Samuels