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Hi,
I am new to networking. Can someone help me? I have a situation where I have two NIC cards in my Blade server. I have an Ethernet cable that comes from the router plugged into one of the NIC cards (that works and provides internet access for the blade server running Ubuntu 8.04). What I want to do since my second Ethernet cable is very short, is connect one end of the short cable to the second NIC card on the Blade server, and connect the other end of the short cable to the NIC card on my Windows Server 2003 so I can access the internet from the Windows machine. How do I go about getting the Windows server to access the internet? What configurations do I need to do on the Blade server and Windows server to make everything work? Your help is greatly appreciated. Thx!

Note: I am new to this forum, so if I posted this question in the wrong place, please someone let me know where I should post. I will get the hang of this soon!

This option is back-to-front but might work for you.

If you use the Windows machine as the Internet connected machine, you can use a program called nat32 (free trial available) which will allow other machines on your local network to connect through your Windows machine to access the Internet.

It works very well - I've been using it for the past week.

You can connect two computers over the Internet and use a given computer's drives just like you'd use local drives -- run programs, copy, get a list of files, etc. Here's how:

• Make sure that both computers (computer A and B) have "TCP/IP" and "NetBEUI" protocols installed and properly functioning.
• Make sure that the "Remote Access Serives" are setup and properly functioning.
• Find out the IP address of computer A.
  You can do this by going to the network icon in the "Control Panel"
  
  For example, let's assume that "205.159.67.4" is the IP address of computer A.
• Enable file sharing and share a path of your choice on computer A.
  
  For example, share "C:\" as "INTERNET_DRIVE"
• Log both computers on to the Internet (dial and connect to your internet service provider for example). If you're on an Intranet, you don't have to connect to the Internet.
• Go to computer B's "DOS/Command Prompt" and type:
  
  NET USE X: \\205.159.67.4\INTERNET_DRIVE
  
  
  If you get an user name/password or logon error, use the following command instead (after replacing uname with the actual user name and pword with the matching password):
  
  NET USE X: \\205.159.67.4\INTERNET_DRIVE /USER:uname pword
  
  This will map computer B's drive X to computer A's shared path INTERNET_DRIVE, which is computer A's C: drive.

Now you can use drive X over the Internet just like any other drive on your local computer.

Actually the guy who posted the query require to get internet for the two machines..
this can be achieved by using following things

1)the Ubuntu machine should foreword the internet req to the windows machine(enable ip forwarding)
2)We have to enable NATing on Ubuntu machine to share internet with windows machine
3)we have to configure Ubuntu machine as proxy server(can implement Squid proxy)

@requester if you still there with same prob let us know we can give you full config details how to achieve this..

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