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by zackbanda

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I'm looking for assistance with internet sharing on a LAN, i have a total of 10 PC's on the LAN, 2 have Windows XP and the rst have Windows 98, i have two modems (56K), one is connected to the Xp PC and the other to A Win 98 PC. I would like to use the one with Win98 for the main connection and let the other get the internet connection from it.
Please assist with how i should go about with the sharing.
Your assistance wil be greatly appriated.
Zack

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by thechas

It is considered "best" practice to enable ICS on the newest OS machine that you have.

If you enable ICS on the XP machine, it should prompt you to create a client disk.

Install the client on all machines that you wish to allow to share the connection.

You may not be able to share the W98 ICS with the XP machines if you enable ICS on the W98 PC.

Remember, you only install ICS on the HOST PC.

Chas

by timthetoolman

Hi,

So if I understand your question right... You want two internet connections - one through (presumably) your WinXP machine and another one to a Win98 machine to service everyone else.

...and you want to remain on the internal ICS 192.168.. network as well as having your own internet connection (and hence being on another network)

I dont believe that this is a problem You should be able to have the XP on both the networks simultaneously like that.

To set up ICS take a look at the following site...

http://www.internet-sharing.com/

(remove spaces from the above URL)

All PCs will be set up to automatically gain their IP addresses after that. Yours included.

Your internet connection will be on the network connection for the modem this can have a different IP address. Make sure you set the connections to the internet up as dial-up, though. Not LAN otherwise you'll be served by the one 98 machine.

Dont enable routing on your box or you'll potentially opening up your network to the internet.
Also I suggest using a firewall and ensuring every PC has virus protection.

I'd hate for you to be frantically restoring your data in the future thinking "why didn't I..."

Cheers,
Tim.

by bhayes

I would get a faster internet connection (dsl, isdn) and setup one pc winxp for your internet, then share that connection for network. If you need more info please let me know.

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