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Internet Connection Sharing for WinNT

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by rawright

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I have a small workgroup with one WinNT4 and two Win95 peers at one of my locations. All need Internet access. Is there a way to share the connection on the NT PC with the other two? I know Win 98 ships with ICS, and was hoping that NT would too... If it's in there, I haven't found it! Suggestions?

By the way, I have tried installing RAS on the NT machine, but the Installer reports that it can't open RASCFG.DLL in the i386 folder. But I'm not sure that that will allowing sharing a connection in any case...

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by mckaytech

NT Server v4.0 does not include Internet Connection Sharing - it is, however, included in Win98SE and Windows2000.

There are a variety of software programs that will do this but I've become very fond of the small routers that provide Internet connection sharing through dialup, DSL or cable. At the low end, these products don't cost much more than a software package or upgrade and can also provide some firewalling and other functions.

paul

by rawright

While all three submissions were helpful, this sounds like the smartest solution to the problem. My users are not the sharpest tools in the drawer, and can screw up any system setting. A stand-alone appliance will be a lot harder for them to damage. I've talked the boss into buying a WebRamp box... we'll see.

by shmaltz

ICS is not included in WINNT because there is no need for ICS since you can enable IP forwading on the winnt machine that way they will all be able to connect to the internet by telling the client machines that the winnt machine is the gateway and also giving them DNS addresses.
If you however want to use a Proxy you can try sambar server at http://www.sambar.com

by rawright

I attempted this, but could not get it to work on the WinNT-W machine. I wish I could persuade the controller to let me upgrade to the Server version, which would solve a lot of hassles, but no go.

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