Irihapeti
February 18th, 2009, 06:24 AM
I have set up a laptop to connect with my desktop by crossover ethernet cable. The desktop is connected to the internet with dialup. There is no hardware router involved. Both machines are running Hardy 386 version. The laptop is an EeePC 900 with the standard Ubuntu install plus a few tweaks to make things work - i.e. not a netbook remix of any kind.
Here's the issue: networking is only partly working. Both machines have static IPs. I have nfs enabled & I can access the desktop with it from the laptop. Each machine can ping the other. Firefox on the EeePc will connect with the internet without fuss if I use the auto-detect option, but nothing else will. I can get synaptic to connect by going to Preferences->Network, clicking on Manual proxy configuration, then Apply, then clicking on Direct connection, then OK. I have to do this each time I open synaptic, which is a bit of a hassle but better than not being able to update.
Everything else on the laptop refuses to play. Apt-get won't run from the command line without a "connection refused" error. Software update does the same thing, and so does wget. I've tried the proxy setup with and without authentification, and it seems to make no difference.
Now, I've never set up a server before and probably something hasn't been configured properly. Can someone point me in the right direction? Maybe I need to set up another package on the desktop so that the proxying works properly. Even a link to a "Servers for Dummies" kind of article would be helpful.
Irihapeti
Here's the issue: networking is only partly working. Both machines have static IPs. I have nfs enabled & I can access the desktop with it from the laptop. Each machine can ping the other. Firefox on the EeePc will connect with the internet without fuss if I use the auto-detect option, but nothing else will. I can get synaptic to connect by going to Preferences->Network, clicking on Manual proxy configuration, then Apply, then clicking on Direct connection, then OK. I have to do this each time I open synaptic, which is a bit of a hassle but better than not being able to update.
Everything else on the laptop refuses to play. Apt-get won't run from the command line without a "connection refused" error. Software update does the same thing, and so does wget. I've tried the proxy setup with and without authentification, and it seems to make no difference.
Now, I've never set up a server before and probably something hasn't been configured properly. Can someone point me in the right direction? Maybe I need to set up another package on the desktop so that the proxying works properly. Even a link to a "Servers for Dummies" kind of article would be helpful.
Irihapeti