[ale] internet sharing on windows

[Brian Pitts]

Bobby Robinson wrote:
> Hello, smart ALE'ers.
> 
> Sorry for the windows question, but I don't know where else to turn.  I don't know the first thing about windows, so pardon if I mess up the jargon.
> 
> I set up the wife's Dell running XP to share internet.  I clicked on control panel, then network connections, right clicked the wireless, checked advanced, told it to share, and chose the wireless connection to share.  Then pressed ok.
> 
> Now, her computer won't connect to the net.  If I look at the network connections, I see the wireless connection, and it says connected.  But opening up firefox gives me a page not found.
> 
> I don't even know where to start.  For what it's worth, I believe internet connection is working, since I can see her computer now with my t-mobile dash's wireless card.  I try turning it off, now, but I don't see the wireless network in the choices there anymore.  Only lan 1 and lan 2.
> 
> Thanks.  I promise not to touch windows ever again after this is fixed.

It's unclear what you're trying to do.

Sharing requires two network connections. It makes Windows do the 
equivalent of

$INTERNET="eth0"
$LOCAL="eth1"
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $INTERNET -j MASQUERADE
dhcpd $LOCAL

A typical configuration would have one NIC connected to a cable/dsl 
modem and the other NIC connected to a second PC. Now the second PC can 
access the internet through the first one.

If you're thinking "Yeah, I know all this, it's what I'm trying to do", 
then my only advice is to make sure you're sharing the right connection. 
It sounds like you've setup the Dell to connect to a wireless network 
and then share that connection through a second (wired?) interface.

-Bria