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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 revlarry

Well, Windows 98 does have Internet Connection Sharing available, or you could just do it yourself. Basically if you install two ethernet adapters on the PC that will have the main connection (or one modem and one ethernet adapter if you have dial-up internet service), you can configure one of the adapters (or the modem, if that's your case) to work with your internet service, and configure the other adapter to communicate with your 9 other PC's on the LAN. Once you have verified that this PCcan both surf the 'net, AND talk to its peers on the LAN, configure each of the other 9 PC's (either through the internet connection wizard or the web browser) to use the IP address of the adapter going out to the internet. The Internet Connection Sharing tool will attempt to simplify and automate the process a bit, but I've never used it personally. I have set it up manually several times (just as I described above) for a neighbor of mine who had Comcast Internet. Once would have been enough except that every time he had the comcast techs come out, they undid all the work I had done and when they left he found that only one of his PC's could still get on the net!

On a side note, are you familiar with TCP/IP addressing? If not, you will probably want to try using the Internet Connection Sharing.

by maxwell edison

Configure your main connection machine as a proxy server, and configure the remaining machines to connect through a proxy server.

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