remotely controlling gateway connection

[Mike Grimwood]

I use a win 98 pc as an internet gateway thro a modem,
which is left on. The rest of my home network uses win XP
PCs and connects up via a hub to the gateway, works
well. However, I am not able to remotely disconnect, via
the XP PCs, the modem from the internet after use. I
seem to remember that this was possible using win 98
machines on a peer to peer. Can anyone help?

 

[Ken Wickes [MSFT]]

There isn't any built in way to remotely control a Win98 ICS host. There is
in WinXP ICS so you might consider making one of the XP machines the host.

There are probably 3rd party utilities for Win98 but I don't know offhand.

 

[Mike Grimwood]

Many thanks.

-----Original Message-----
There isn't any built in way to remotely control a Win98 ICS host. There is
in WinXP ICS so you might consider making one of the XP machines the host.

There are probably 3rd party utilities for Win98 but I don't know offhand.

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Ken Wickes [MSFT]
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I use a win 98 pc as an internet gateway thro a modem,
which is left on. The rest of my home network uses win XP
PCs and connects up via a hub to the gateway, works
well. However, I am not able to remotely disconnect, via
the XP PCs, the modem from the internet after use. I
seem to remember that this was possible using win 98
machines on a peer to peer. Can anyone help?

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