How to Internet connection Sharing( ICS )
On my laptop I have a wireless connection to the internet.
Can I share this connection with my desktop computer ? i am using ubuntu 9.10
and can you please tell me whats the difference between xubuntu, kubuntu and ubuntu ??
did not see it anywhere
Re: How to Internet connection Sharing( ICS )
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Originally Posted by
ibrahim.k
and can you please tell me whats the difference between xubuntu, kubuntu and ubuntu ??
did not see it anywhere
Here is the wikipedia version. There's a more "official" version I'm still trying to locate.
Another description.
Maybe this is the one I was thinking of...
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Thank you Iowan that was use full still the Internet connection thing
Re: How to Internet connection Sharing( ICS )
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Originally Posted by
ibrahim.k
On my laptop I have a wireless connection to the internet.
Can I share this connection with my desktop computer ? i am using ubuntu 9.10
and can you please tell me whats the difference between xubuntu, kubuntu and ubuntu ??
did not see it anywhere
Xubuntu uses a lighter interface for older machines
Kubuntu uses KDE instead of gnome for the desktop environment
Ubuntu is the default distribution using Gnome for the desktop environment.
Personally I prefer Gnome.
I have never setup internet connection sharing on ubuntu but here is the documentation:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...nectionSharing
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/sharing-in...in-ubuntu.html
Re: How to Internet connection Sharing( ICS )
Thank you zaphod I will try it
Re: How to Internet connection Sharing( ICS )
Let me know how it goes I can try and help with general network troubleshooting if needed.
I can also try and test it here if you run into too much trouble.
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Reading this article was too much for me I didn't understand most of the things since I am not that professional user thank you in advance zaphod
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After some hunting around I found two articles that I was looking for yesterday they both look pretty good and not as confusing.
this one is for sharing a wired connection
http://bigbrovar.wordpress.com/2008/...ion-on-ubuntu/
this one is for creating a wireless network for the other machine to use.
http://bigbrovar.wordpress.com/2009/...sly-on-ubuntu/
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OMG !!!! I feel stupid after seeing this two threads I found out that current settings for my ethernet connection are not the way it should be
before:
192.168.10.1
255.255.255.0
192.168.10.1
now
192.168.10.1
255.255.255.0
0.0.0.0
and I can use wireless and wired connection at the same time thank you zaphod and according to the ICS it didn't work I will try doing it once again thnx again
Re: How to Internet connection Sharing( ICS )
If this question has already been answered I couldn't find it but a link would be welcomed.
Here goes:
I have an ancient laptop with a broken screen that I would like to use as a wireless Internet receiver. I want it to receive Internet over a usb wireless nic (wlan0) and share it along with dhcp and dynamic ip addressing service through it's built in nic (eth0) to the rest of my network via a 4 port Ethernet switch with an up-link port (it is just a dummy switch, it doesn't do dhcp or anything else like that). I have followed the instructions from the link shown above. Here is my difficulty; If I connect eth0 to a regular port on the switch firestarter starts up just fine and reports no errors, however in order to share the Internet out to the rest of my network I believe I need to plug into the up-link port and this causes firestarter to tell me "Failed to start firewall, the device eth0 is not ready...." as if it was completely disconnected. I have been using a newish (windows vista) laptop that belongs to my work to get to the internet up to this point and everything works ok with it hooked to the up-link port on the switch using m-sft's ics. I had hoped that I could just slip this ubuntu machine in in it's stead but I am stymied.
This might be just a basic networking problem and not an Ubuntu issue at all, but as I said, it works somehow with my current setup but the ubuntu laptop just won't do it. I am not a particularly command line savvy person which is why I'm trying to use firestarter, so if this can be explained without a long series of command line references I'll love Ubuntu forever, if not I'll just like Ubuntu as a friend and try to muddle through somehow. Any help at all will be welcome.