Internet Access via WinXP

My WinXP machine is connected to the internet via wireless connection. I have a linux machine in the same room and would like to share that connection. I have Connected the two machines with a cross over cable, enabled internet connection sharing in XP, and set the gateway in linux to be the IP of the ethernet adapter. Any ideas on what I may be missing here? I am still unable to access the internet on the linux machine.

Thanks!

 

Errr...Turned out to be user error. All is well now.

 

Do you have Samba enabled to share files between the machines?

Do you have a firewall in Linux enabled?

My sil uses Synergy between Win2000 and Kubuntu.

 

No I don't have samba enabled to share files. I was just looking to get the internet access on linux. As it turned out I was inadvertantly typing192.168.2.1 rather than 192.168.0.1 for the gateway.