Linux / Windows Internet Connection Sharing

This is kinda complicated so I'll try to start out simple:

Heres my systems:
I have two laptops, one older IBM Thinkpad 390E running Slackware 10
and the other one is a Toshiba Satellite P25-S609 running Windows XP
MCE 2004.

Heres what works now:
The Slackware box is connected to the Internet through a dial-up
connection. It is connected to my home network through a ethernet
cable connected to my Netgear wireless router. The XP machine has a
wireless networking card.

Heres what I want to do:
I want to connect to the Internet wirelessly on the on the XP machine
through the Slackware machine. Does anybody know if this is possible
under Linux?

Possibly also share files between the two using Samba. Are there any
problems doing this with a wireless router?

Thanks for any help in advance.

Eric

On 2004-08-27, Eric Chin <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I want to connect to the Internet wirelessly on the on the XP machine
> through the Slackware machine. Does anybody know if this is possible
> under Linux?

Enable IP forwarding and masquerading in your Slack machine.
See the firewall-howto.

> problems doing this with a wireless router?

No.

Davide

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Eric Chin wrote:
> This is kinda complicated so I'll try to start out simple:
>
> Heres my systems:
> I have two laptops, one older IBM Thinkpad 390E running Slackware 10
> and the other one is a Toshiba Satellite P25-S609 running Windows XP
> MCE 2004.
>
> Heres what works now:
> The Slackware box is connected to the Internet through a dial-up
> connection. It is connected to my home network through a ethernet
> cable connected to my Netgear wireless router. The XP machine has a
> wireless networking card.
>
> Heres what I want to do:
> I want to connect to the Internet wirelessly on the on the XP machine
> through the Slackware machine. Does anybody know if this is possible
> under Linux?
>

It should be possible, it's just like connecting with another Linux or
connecting two Windoze between them. You just have to know the IP of
the Windoze machine.

> Possibly also share files between the two using Samba. Are there any
> problems doing this with a wireless router?

If you can establish the connection and ping one machine from the other
then you can do Samba with the machines.

>
> Thanks for any help in advance.
>
> Eric


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thanks alot for your help. ive been too busy lately to work on this,
but i'll let you know if it worked or not.

Eric