How to share a network connection using UBUNTU/Linux.?

Question

Hey, i've done this before on Windows. What I did was change the settings on my laptop (I was running on wifi) so my wifi was shared through my ethernet port. I took a ethernet wire and put one end to my XBOX 360 and the other end to my laptop. So the connection was shared and my 360 had internet. Now I need to do that again but I dont have administrator rights and I have no idea how to set it up. Please help. So to sum it all up "I need to know how to share a network connection and view network connections using ubuntu so I can share my connection with my xbox 360. Thanks.

Answer 1

Without admin rights on Ubuntu you can not do this.