Sharing BT Broadband Connection with cross over cable

My problem is as follows, I have a host PC (Windows 98) and a 2nd PC
(WIndows XP) and i want to be able to share my BT Broadband connection
between then. I have set up the LAN using cross over cable connecting
the two PC's via their Network Cards and gone through all the required
Network Wizards. The 2nd PC can see the host but due to the nature of
Win 98 i'm unsure if I can see the 2nd PC from the host. I have then
tried to launch Internet Explorer on the 2nd PC to use the connection
however my 2nd PC simply tries to connect using its now redundant
default seting of BT Broadband. Basically i need to configure my 2nd
PC in someway that it uses the host's connection rather than trying to
connect its self? How do i do this? And also do i need to configure
the host in anyway to allow the 2nd PC to share the connection, baring
in mind i have been through the home network wizards already!

"Jamie Wallace" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> My problem is as follows, I have a host PC (Windows 98) and a 2nd PC
> (WIndows XP) and i want to be able to share my BT Broadband connection
> between then. I have set up the LAN using cross over cable connecting
> the two PC's via their Network Cards and gone through all the required
> Network Wizards. The 2nd PC can see the host but due to the nature of
> Win 98 i'm unsure if I can see the 2nd PC from the host. I have then
> tried to launch Internet Explorer on the 2nd PC to use the connection
> however my 2nd PC simply tries to connect using its now redundant
> default seting of BT Broadband. Basically i need to configure my 2nd
> PC in someway that it uses the host's connection rather than trying to
> connect its self? How do i do this? And also do i need to configure
> the host in anyway to allow the 2nd PC to share the connection, baring
> in mind i have been through the home network wizards already!

On the second pc try this.. in ie6, go to tools, internet options, click on
connections tab and put the dot in "never dial a connection" hopefully then
the pc will pickup the remote connection

> ...do i need to configure the host in anyway to allow the 2nd PC to
> share the connection, baring in mind i have been through the home
> network wizards already!

Have you done the ICS bit ?

Failing that, a proxy program might get around any win98/XP communication
problems

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Jamie Wallace wrote:

> My problem is as follows, I have a host PC (Windows 98) and a 2nd PC
> (WIndows XP) and i want to be able to share my BT Broadband connection
> between then. I have set up the LAN using cross over cable connecting
> the two PC's via their Network Cards and gone through all the required
> Network Wizards. The 2nd PC can see the host but due to the nature of
> Win 98 i'm unsure if I can see the 2nd PC from the host. I have then

You may need to enable the guest account on the XP machine to get full
file and printer level sharing working.... TCP/IP level sharing should
be fine however - try doing a "ping" from a dos prompt.


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(E-Mail Removed) (Jamie Wallace) wrote in
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> My problem is as follows, I have a host PC (Windows 98) and a 2nd PC
> (WIndows XP) and i want to be able to share my BT Broadband connection
> between then. I have set up the LAN using cross over cable connecting
> the two PC's via their Network Cards and gone through all the required
> Network Wizards. The 2nd PC can see the host but due to the nature of
> Win 98 i'm unsure if I can see the 2nd PC from the host. I have then
> tried to launch Internet Explorer on the 2nd PC to use the connection
> however my 2nd PC simply tries to connect using its now redundant
> default seting of BT Broadband. Basically i need to configure my 2nd
> PC in someway that it uses the host's connection rather than trying to
> connect its self? How do i do this? And also do i need to configure
> the host in anyway to allow the 2nd PC to share the connection, baring
> in mind i have been through the home network wizards already!

Do you have ICS on your host PC? ICS is not available for any Windows
releases before Win98SE. Swap the connection, connect the broadband modem
to your WinXP machine and set the ICS.

This website should give you clear instruction on how to setup ICS.

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/