| rifleman 2004-01-23, 7:49 pm |
| I have 2 laptops in my home peer-to-peer network. One, Toshiba portege
7020 with 192 MB Ram, and the other a Toshiba Tecra 9000 with 512 MB
Ram, connected via a hub.
The original set up was as follows: RH 9 (installed as a Workstation) on
the Portege and Windows XP on the Tecra. the Internet access was on the
Tecra because I have a USB TA to access my ISDN ISP. This setup worked
well, with dial-up on demand working ok and access to the shared folders
on the XP installation. The only problem was the Portege is at the
minimum RAM for running RH9.
SO - I changed the Tecra to dual-boot - XP and RH 9 (installed as
home/Desktop)in order to take advantage of the higher RAM and processor.
On the Portege, I installed Windows 2000 (the spec is not sufficient
enough for XP) and made this the machine with internet access via the
TA. Initially, I couldn't get the RH installation to see the shared
folders on the W2K install, but the dial-up worked. In trying to see the
folders, I managed to somehow disable the automatic dialup. I eventually
realised that I had to install the Samba packages to enable the W2K
folders to be seen, which they now can be, but I still can't get the
automatic dial up to work, neither can I access the internet when I have
manually connected on the W2K machine.
Should I have installed RH as a workstation instead of the Home/Desktop?
Can anyone help me to get the auto-dial back working?
thanks
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