[Wolves] The only Linux machine on a Windows network

sparkes sparkes at phreaker.net
Thu May 6 16:24:46 BST 2004


On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 16:08, Wayne Morris wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 15:55, Adam Sweet wrote:

> > 
> > Now, I can't get out of the network. That is, I can
> > use Samba to connect to our servers and stuff and view
> > our intranet, but I can't get out onto the internet.
> > 
> 
> Silly question, but you used the routers internal LAN as the gateway?
> Does the router need to be set to give permission for your box to
> connect to the net? Not something like the router needs to qualify the
> hostname of the linux box before accepting it?
> 

route add default gw 192.168.0.1 (or whatever the router is called)
should get you seeing the rest of the world.  You might also need to
setup your dns if the gateway doesn't do it for you

sparkes




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