[plug] Gateways and Windoze

[Wayne G]

make sure you have set the gate way in control panel networks. as well as the
dns of your isp..... Also check IP chains will allow the win pc to acees (on
the same network/subnet). also fix the ip on the winpc.....


On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> We have a firewall/gateway set up using ipchains and Red Hat 6.0. On the same
> box, the server, we have samba operational, which apparently works with the
> Windoze 95 on Anne's computer.
> 
> I am running Red Hat 5.2 with Netscape Communicator 4.07 on my computer, for
> Internet access.
> 
> The problem is that Anne wants to use IE4 for Internet access on her computer,
> as apparently she can use key combinations instead of a mouse, as using a mouse
> gives her problems, due to too many hours over too many years at computers and
> computer terminals.
> 
> But, while connecting my computer running Red Hat 5.2 to the Internet, via the
> gateway, is no problem, we cannot get either Windoze 95 or Windoze NT to connect
> to the Internet via the gateway. She can access web pages on our intranet web
> server, which is the gateway server, but cannot get out to the Internet via the
> gateway on the server.
> 
> Can someone please advise?
> 
> -- 
> 
> Bret Busby
> 
> Phone/Fax:    +61 8 9399 3820 ( 08 9399 3820 within Australia)
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