Samba as a gateway

[Dieter Speck]

Dear Matthew,

Samba is not the right tool! There are two ways:

either use ipchains to make transparent forwarding
or use a proxy (i.e. squid (www.squid.org)

The good thing about ipchains is that you can configure whatever type of 
connection you would like the Windows computer to have and you can 
configure a firewall too.
The bad thing is that you have to know how. But there is a lot of 
documentation coming with ipchains and you find much more on the web.

The good thing about a proxy is that it is simple and efficient for 
browsing the web.
The bad point is that you have no direct email, news etc.

Best regards,

Dieter

PS: ipchains usually is included in Linux distributions. However, you 
better get the latest version to avoid security bugs.

At 05:07 21.12.00, you wrote:
>Hi there, I've been looking into setting up a Linux computer and a 
>Windows98 toaster.. uh computer.. on a network, and am now to the stage 
>where I want the Linux computer to make a dial-up ppp connection to the 
>internet, and the Windows98 box to connect through it via the ethernet. 
>Someone pointed me to www.samba.org and I was just wondering if/how one 
>would go about using Samba as a gateway, or if you can't, what you'd suggest.