Lorenzo, > I am running Slackware 9.0 on both computers ... What you probably want is to use the 192.168.0.x IP address scheme for the PC and laptop. These addresses are reserved for 'internal' ie not real IP addresses. Then you will set up IP masquerading on the PC, which will connect to the net. There are lots of docs on how to set up masquerading. For disk sharing, yes you probably want to use nfs although there are many alternatives these days. As with masquerading, there are lots of docs on how to set up NFS. In the slackware install you'll see some NFS tools, one being the NFS daemons, you want those on the server (PC). It may take a while to get all of this working (masq and nfs) but it will work very reliably once you are done. If you wanted to add a windows box to the same internal lan you could run samba on the server (PC) for disk sharing, and for internet the PC just acts like a gateway (nothing special to do other than configure ethernet). I suggest that you set up your PC as the IP 192.168.0.1, it will be the gateway. Then set up the laptop as 192.168.0.2 and set the gateway to 192.168.0.1. Read the docs on IP maquerading for how to configure that. Try a google search, there are lots of docs. Some show very simple setups including exactly what you want to do (just connect two PCs for sharing interney connection). -- Doug >Lorenzo > >E Pluribus Unix > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
