and you have DNS configured right?
Vaughn Treude wrote:
>
> Thanks to everyone for their help, but I still can't connect my Windows ME notebook.
> 1. The gateway IS set up correctly.
> 2. I CAN ping the Cisco modem from the ME notebook.
> 3. As a desparation move, I removed the dialup connections.
> 4. I removed all proxy server settings under the Internet settings applet.
> 5. Neither Exploder nor Outlook can find the server in any way, shape or form.
>
> Unfortunately, converting all my systems to Linux isn't an option.
> Any ideas?
>
> Patrick Fleming wrote:
>
> > Unless you are using a proxy server there is no need to set anything in
> > the browser. The routing just needs to know how to get out of the LAN to
> > access anything else. If the machine can see the outside ip# (public) then
> > you should even be able to set it to that external ip#.
> > You can check the status of Win routing by typing c:\windows\route print.
> > Patrick
> >
> > On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks, Patrick. That command-line program looks similar to what I was doing in the GUI, but I'll have to try it anyway. I wonder how to tell
> > > Windows where to connect. There's a place in the Internet Exploder Internet Options dialog for a server IP and port number, but I'm not sure what
> > > port number to use.
> > >
> > > Later,
> > > Vaughn Treude
> > > Nakota Software, Inc.
> > >
> > > Patrick Fleming wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Thanks for your reply, Dan. Your setup is similar to mine; though it seems I need to run dhclient on my firewall machine in order to acess the
> > > > > internet. Either that, or there's some other configuration step I accidentally did when I added that in. My "eth1" NIC behaves a bit
> > > > > strangely; it always shows a FAIL when the system comes up, and dhclient first reports the network as "down" and then succeeds. I don't know
> > > > > what's happening, but at least it works!
> > > > >
> > > > > Both you and Gontran mentioned setting up the Gateway address on the client machine, which is what I'd missed, because I skipped the step where
> > > > > they had you setting up the NIC, since it was already set up! Now I can successfully ping the Cisco from another machine on the LAN. Now I
> > > > > need to figure out why my stupid Windows machine doesn't let me replace the dialup connection with a LAN connection. It has buttons for LAN
> > > > > configuration, but be damned if I can figure out how to actually enable it (or if they mean the same thing by "proxy server" as Linux people
> > > > > mean by that term.) I know it's terribly OT, but is there a trick to making this crazy Redmond stuff look over the LAN without deleting the
> > > > > dialup account? (One of these is a notebook.)
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks again,
> > > > > Vaughn
> > > > >
> > > > Here's the setup that I used. In tcp/ip properties of your nic, I set
> > > > enable DNS, and set the name servers to one inside name server, and one
> > > > outside name server. I have problems when the internal DNS is down so I
> > > > don't think that the external forwards correctly... another project. I
> > > > also set the nic ip number. From the command line
> > > > c:\windows\route add 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 {firewall nic ip}
> > > >
> > > > If I remember correctly this machine was still able to dial out indepenent
> > > > of the firewall.
> > > >
> > > > Patrick
> > > >
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