Quote Originally Posted by d000hg
Helpful as ever - I'll give it a shot.

Should I actually be sharing the dialup network connection, or is that not required?

That site talks about having to install sharing software - but the Win2K help makes no reference, and for a brief period I have had internet sharing working on different PCs without it...
If you follow that site to a T, you'll not go wrong. I practically swear by the site.

That site lists several options for internet sharing. You needed to work your way through it carefully:

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/...nstall_dup.htm

That is the particular software they are talking about. It basically means to activate ICS on the computer that you are connected to the internet with... ICS is already part of Windows 2000 pro.

ICS is much easier to set up in Win2000 than in Win98SE and WinMe. There's no software to install, and it doesn't add any network components or protocols. But Win2000 gives you less control over how ICS works. You can't:

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disable the DHCP server.
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change the server's IP address or the range of addresses allocated by the DHCP server.
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share the connection over two different networks.