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Originally posted by L.Coyote
I only want to share Internet from Ubuntu to Windows, and maybe see the drive from Windows... But sharing Internet is a priority, since I can't be on Ubuntu when my mom decides to use her laptop...
The feature for Internet sharing on Linux is usually referred to as "IP masquerading". There is a
generic HOWTO for doing it the hard way with any Linux distribution, but it seems that Ubuntu provides a graphical tool for setting it up --
try this first.
Squid, which was mentioned by another poster, is a caching web proxy. Combined with masquerading it may speed up web browsing a bit, but isn't necessary otherwise. Without masquerading, it can be set up to share the connection for the purpose of web browsing only -- other apps that connect to Internet won't work through it.
