TAP-32 network help (Wubi)

Grimgoth

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Hi, have been playing with Ubuntu installed as a file image on the hard drive of a vista machine. Everything is working fine, except I can't connect to the outside world....
I've downloaded and installed the TAP-32 network thing via openVPN. I know I'm supposed to try bridge the connections then unbridge and share the LAN that I normally connect to the rest of the world with in Vista.
However, no dice, and can't configure the network, been trying all known IPs, including 192.168.0.1, 192.168.1.1, the ones I get from my home network, 192.168.0.7, the ones at work, 129.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, and their relevant gateways and dhcp servers.
Am assuming Ubuntu can see the TAP network adapter as I can configure IPs for it.
Cheers
 
Erm. Lets see if I can word it better. You install Ubuntu via Wubi onto a disk image on your hard disk (set size) that just appears like a file to Windows. It then runs ubuntu like an app in windows; an emulation I guess. However, in order for it to talk to the network card in windows, you use a "device" called TAP-Win32 Adapter (v8) and bridge connections/share with your normal windows LAN.
I'm not able to get it talking with one another basically.
 
right my apologies.
its sorted! yay!
I was actually trying to run ubuntu via colinux, not the wubi installer, as previously stated.
anyway, the resulting trawling through various versions etc, says that in order for the distro to look out via the tap32 method, in windows you:
1) set your internet connection to share via the tap adapter while not connected
2) you set the TAP adapter to a manual ip address of 192.168.x.y where x.y is non conflicting with anything else that you have.
3) you reconnect your network
4) fire up colinux/ubuntu
5) Set the IP address of the linux machine to 192.168.x.y+1 (or something like that), the gateway to 192.168.x.y and the dns servers to what you have on the outside network.

viola. my mistake was thinking that the linux machine needs to be the same ip address as the tap adapter.

oh. and apparently there is a new way of doing this, but since I just got this working, I'm not trying anything else....yet.
its using the WinCAP driver
http://wiki.colinux.org/Network#The_WinPCAP_driver
but i think it involves yet another configuration file that I'm a bit tired of editing so far, so....
 
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