From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 9 13:09:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA24516A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:09:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mercury.is.co.za (mercury.is.co.za [196.4.160.222]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C45F643D2F for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:09:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grantg@xsinet.co.za) Received: from Grant (c7-ctn-32.dial-up.net [196.26.20.32]) by mercury.is.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52DD8DE60F for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 15:08:55 +0200 (SAST) From: Grant Speelman Organization: Home user To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 15:09:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200407080033.18896.grantg@xsinet.co.za> <20040708095213.GA87715@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040708095213.GA87715@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200407091509.23731.grantg@xsinet.co.za> Subject: Re: cvsup behind windows xp (The next level) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 13:09:03 -0000 On Thursday 08 July 2004 11:52, you wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:33:18AM +0200, Grant Speelman wrote: > > I got the small problem, I would like to keep my ports collection > > update using cvsup but I don't have a direct connection to the > > internet. My Computer is on a network with my Fathers computer > > which is running windows xp. Lets say I have full access to my > > fathers computer as long I don't remove windows xp. What would I > > have to do to my fathers computer and my in order to keep my > > ports collections updated. > > > > I read the man pages something about cvsup using a socks proxy > > but where do I find this runsock(I look in the ports and try the > > 'which' command) and how do I use it. > > You can enable 'connection sharing' on your Father's XP box which > should permit your FreeBSD machine sufficient network access to run > cvsup(1). Connection Sharing simply makes the XP machine into a > NAT gateway for your home network, and enables a DHCP+DNS service > on the XP box, so that other home machines can autoconfigure > themselves against it. A FreeBSD machine should be able to do that > without too much trouble. > Right I check up on this connection sharing on windows Xp but run into a small problem , the connection sharing will only work if you use windows xp's dailup to connect to your ISP but my father uses the dailup connection program the ISP offers(and I tried setting it up using the xp's dailer but with no success) , therefore there is no dailup in the network connections of xp, so I can't use the connection sharing of xp unless there is some other way to enable it. It is possible though for me to use a proxy , I use it for my basic connections like mail , www , etc. But how would I be able to get cvsup to work on a connection like this? Thanks Grant