Cable connection sharing

You're really facing two problems here. You need to configure an account so your ME box can connect to your 2000 machine (make sure to create shares and set permissions) and you need to configure a means of internet connection sharing.

Here are some links that should help:

http://www.winnetmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=8837

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/networking/

http://www.labmice.net/windows2000/default.htm

http://www.labmice.net/networking/ICS.htm

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/

Delete any spaces in the above URLs.

Good luck...hope this helps!

I'm using Win XP and the interfaces I have found are almost identical. Provided your shares and permissions are set up correctly, make sure (as in my system, in which I use 1 NIC for the Comcast [Surfboard modem] connection and 1 NIC to my home network hub) that the internet connection is set up under Advanced tab to "allow network computers to access internet connection through this computer." With my service provider, I have to use a specific Computer ID # (provided by the Cable ISP), where the primary unit has a suffix of -a, second unit -b, etc. The only problem I encounter is that, since I don't use a router for the connection to the cable modem as common link for all the units on the Network, only one system at a time can utilize the cable connection. The fact that the 2 OSs are markedly different in their approach to security may have some bearing, but addressing that issue escapes me. I hope this helps you.
-Fred McLeish