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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 support

goto add/remove programs then windows setup and make sure you have internet connection sharing enabled on the win98 machine.

you will need to go into the TCP/IP properties of the win98 machine and set the IP address of this machine to 192.168.0.1and then the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 then reboot this PC.

The workstations you will simply need to add the Gateway to each machine of 192.168.0.1 and then reboot each PC (XP may not need this) you should then be able to see the internet on each of your workstations providing they have NO allocated IP addressing already. (they need to be set to obtain IP address automatically)

This is a general guide to a standard network environment and if you have any other programs using TCP/IP protocols (as in dos based accounting packages running via a mainframe etc etc then it can be done with the 'route' program but is alot more difficult)

Hope this helps!

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