• Registered: 2012-01-21
  • Posts: 9

Topic: Sharing internet connection [SOLVED]

Hello, apologies for posting to help&support right away (I swear I had registered aeons ago?), but there is something I would LOVE to get some help with.

...sharing the internet connection of my laptop mobile broadband to other computers. I know the network manager has a simple way to make this happen, by just modifying the eth0 connection's IPv4 method to "shared to other computers". I have shared it like this on xubuntu for a while now, and it has never been an issue. Never needed to change anything with the receiving computer/xbox/whatever it is that used the connection. And just now I noticed the network manager seems to discard the changes I made, reverting back to automatic DHCP every time I close the manager window.

I once tried to switch to Lubuntu, and I didn't succeed with the network sharing on it. The network manager seems to be exactly same, though I'm not experienced enough to know if it has anything to do with how the distro handles the connections big_smile

So what I'm asking is, what might the difference be that makes it work for one distribution and for one not? And more importantly, how to fix it? From every single distro I've ever used I've always fancied #! the most for combining all the things I see as important, and I would honestly rather switch to it permanently instead of using xubuntu. Thank you for all and any help provided!

EDIT: for the record, I don't have the latest crunchbang, 10? Though, since I only installed it last night I'm downloading the statler now for install...I doubt it will make difference though.

EDIT#2: YES. solved. So, the network manager changing back to automatic DHCP tipped me off, and as I rebooted (I usually just suspend my laptop), I noticed I also had to set up my mobile broadband again, and then I tried to create a new ethernet connection, and the nm told me it doesn't have priviledges for it - and with a google from new point of view, I could find a thread here about the network manager not having root priviledges. with that, and the help of the thread I was able to sudo my way into success, and it's now brilliantly sharing the internet - I cannot describe how glad I'm from something as simple as this: no more going back to xubuntu!

Last edited by supremanade (2012-01-21 15:04:11)