Hey guys, great place.

Just a little help with internet sharing.

I have a laptop that is connected to the net through the home wifi and next to it is a desktop (dosnt have wifi) I was wondering if i can share my laptops wift connection with my desktop through lan? Laptop is running vista home and desktop is Ubuntu.

Any help would be great!

Hi tarn, welcome to the PCHF.

If you have a wireless internet account, you will most likely have 4 lan ports on the router.

while i would recommend the route of using a cable from the router, you can enable internet sharing on vista, but unfortunatelly i have never seen this actually work successfully

That thing is i live in a out house and the router is ages away from me.

So is it possible to share my wifi connectiom from my latop through lan to my desktop?

well in theory is IS possible but i have never been able to get it to work witht the built in settings due to ip address issues, but i will look into it.

EDIT: the service built into vista will not function correctly on a router as it needs a certain ip address, i think it would be fairly difficult to share your connection, yo umay need a wireless card for the pc, but wait for other responses and have a look around on the net about it

Id say just pull out your wallet and get a wifi card, its about 9pounds sterling here for one so shouldnt be past 30 dollars there. You have 2 headaches to solve here:

1. as jono said theres no way ive ever found to get inet sharing working when the the pc doing the sharing is connected to a router.

2. ubuntu+vista home = fTw??!!

As long as the cable run is 100 metres or less, why not just dig that trench and get some pvc plumbing pipe for protection??? its cheaper, more secure, more reliable and faster than wifi anyway. Get yourself down to any old office buildings that are getting refurbished for free runs of cable.

Anyway good luck and keep posting.

Thanks for the comments guys.

if this is not possible,then i will just fork out for a wifi card. And i don't really want to get dirty lol.

Wifi cards are like $60 here no cheap but will looks around

cheers