AOL Internet Connection Sharing in XP

[Guest badboy4life]

Has anyone setup internet connection sharing on windows xp, for a normal dialup connection.

I've connected two computers using a crossed ethernet cable and can share files and printers fine. Following the prompts for the one connected to the net stating it was the main computer and other computers would use it to connect to the net. As its AOL i cannot access the specific dial up properties to enable connection sharing for that specific account.

On the second computer i went to set up an internet connection and ran through the dialogs choosing the options to use internet connection from another computer, it picks up the computer name of the first pc saying that it is sharing a internet connection 'do you wish to connect using xxx' and i select ok and continue to the end.

The problem is the second computer just displays dns errors and won't connect to the internet. Do I need to create a dialup or local network connection or something for IE to dial??Or is there something I am missing??

Any help appreciated hope that the description is clear.

[Guest Brody]

On the server PC, right click on the internet connection in Network Connections and under the advanced tab check the box that offers internet connection sharing (Allow other network users blah blah). Then right click on the LAN connection, properties, double click on Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), the server should be have an IP of 192.168.0.1 and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. Go to the same TCP/IP settings on the second PC and set its IP to 192.168.0.XXX where XXX is anything between 2 and 255, set the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0, and set the default gateway and preferred DNS to 192.168.0.1. This should now work assuming the PC's are not blocking each other as a result of firewalls etc. If they are just allow each other's IP addresses. Hope this helps!

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

I use comsocks from www.LinkByte.com with AOL, works a treat, and is the only decent solution i've found.

And before anyone asks, i'm in a non broadband area, and AOL ISDN have no cutoff ;-)

P

[Guest badboy4life]

under the advanced tab check the box that offers internet connection sharing (Allow other network users blah blah).

- with AOL it won't let u go in to the settings, this is how i was trying to originally set it up.

Paul - I'll give that software i try in the next couple of days thanks for the advice