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I have 3 computers connected via Ethernet in 1 room

  • 1 laptop with Windows 7 Ultimate.
  • 1 laptop with Ubuntu 12.04.
  • 1 PC with Windows 7 Ultimate.

Both laptops use their own independent Wi-Fi adapters for network connections, but the PC does not currently have an adapter. I built it strictly as a gaming rig and do not intend to use it for daily web surfing. I do not use the Ubuntu laptop for my Internet very much, so I want to use the Wi-Fi connection on that laptop and somehow pass it through my local network to the PC.

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The Wi-Fi router is on another floor and the LAN is completely separate. Bridging the Wi-Fi and Ethernet adapters is out because it funkifies my network connections, and I am unable to access all the machines and synergy gets very confused.

What is the best way to go about forwarding the Internet connection from my Ubuntu laptop to the PC?

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Set up ip forwarding on your Ubuntu machine:

Edit /etc/sysctl.conf, find these lines and uncomment them like this:

# Uncomment the next line to enable packet forwarding for IPv4
net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

Then do 

service network restart

Then set the ip address of the ubuntu machine as your default gateway on the windows machine.

Haven't tested this but I think it should work.

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