questions

[Suzanne Payne]

--On Saturday, May 17, 2003 8:37 pm -0400 gelsey <germy@comcast.net> wrote:

> 2. I want to create a wireless network with a PC running Windows 98 as
> the server, and my Linux box as the client, so I can share my internet
> connection between the two. How do I do that? Do I use Samba, or is
> that for file and printer sharing only? How do I configure the Airport?


This isn't really a Linux question but a Win98 question: How to I set up my 
Win98 machine to share its internet connection over a wireless network? 
You'd need to ask a Win98 mailing list that question.  Are you sure you 
wouldn't prefer to do it the other way round?

As far as setting up your airport on the YDL machine - although I've not 
setup wireless on YDL I should assume, once you have a signal, that you 
simply fill in the details much the same as you would with a normal 
ethernet connection:

1) if the server is DHCPing simply set your airport settings to obtain 
everything dynamically.

2) if the server isn't DHCPing use the following settings:

IP: Unique IP number to your YDL machine eg. 192.168.1.6
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 (in the case of 192.168.X.X)
Router/Gateway: IP number of your Win98 machine.
DNS: Probably the IP number of your Win98 machine

Suzanne