Sharing Dialup access between 2000 Pro and XP Machines

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Daniel Vaughan

The situation:

I am setting up a small home network for my father. He
has both Windows 2000 Professional and XP machines. He
lives in an area with no broadband capability so he must
use dial up connections.

All the machines are currently on a P2P network that is
connected by a linksys router.

The machine that will have the modem is a 2000 Pro
machine, and I have the article that tells me how to set
up the "Enable Internet Connection sharing" function.


The problem:

I need to know how to set up the other machines so that
they can use the internet through the modem computer, and
I cannot seem to find an article on this.

The other networked machines are Windows XP and Windows
2000 Pro. Please e-mail me the articles that will tell me
how to do this.


One more question:

Because it is a dialup connection, it will not be left
on. Is there a way to start the dial up connection from
the networked computers without having to walk to the main
computer and logging in?
 
See the articles below and yes you can configure the connection to be dial on demand
from other computers on the network. However I would also go into each computer and
in tcp/ip properties/advanced/dns uncheck "register this connection" of the computers
will often try to dial out. Windows Update and other software installs such as virus
protection can also dial out by themselves if configured to auto update so you may
want to check those settings too. Note that the built in Windows help files are often
useful when configuring anything in Windows 2000 or XP. --- Steve

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_ics/
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=307311
 
Solution to question 1.
Your 2k pro which has a modem must be having a NIC card.
Go to the properties of your modem from settings/control
pannel/ network and dialup connections. There in the
peoperties of your dial-up modem, check box "Enable
internet connection sharing"
Now your NIC card. Give it an IP 192.168.0.50, subnet
255.255.255.0
Your nodes now must have IPs as follows.
First node IP : 192.168.0.51
Subbnet same : 255.255.255.0
Gateway : 192.168.0.50
DNS : 192.168.0.50

Second node IP : 192.168.0.52,53,54,55 and so on...
Subnet,gateway and DNS in all nodes will remain the same
as above.
Once your 2k with dialup modem is connected to the
internet, your nodes will able to use the same internet.

Solution to question 2.

This can be little bothering for you.
You will have to from nodes first telnet your 2k. To do
this, you will have to enable telnet service on 2k. Then
you can use NETSH command and even make a batch file on
your nodes, which can connect or disconnect dialup modem
just with a mouse click. but to configure this you must be
familiar with telnet and NETSH basics.

Second option is, you may have on demand dialing on your
2k and d/c if connection gets idle setting.
But this might cause 2k box dial randomly whenever a
request is generated anywhere in your network.

-Nimit
 
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