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Windows 2000: Internet Connection Sharing
On some countries, more and more families have
2 (or even 3) PC's:
- one for the parents, used for business work
- one for the children, to play (and to
do some school-work......)
Also in small office (without a big central fileserver acting as
proxy-server), several people
need to connect to the Internet, but not everybody has a modem in
this system or there
maybe are not sufficient phone-extentions available on the
telefon-switchboard.
On the first version of Windows98 and on Windows NT-systems, a PROXY-server could
be installed to allow the sharing of the connection to the
Internet.
First introduced with Windows98 SE ,Microsoft has included
this functionality in Windows2000:
Internet
Connection
Sharing
( ICS )
Before you try to use the Windows 2000
Internet Connection Sharing on an office network,
be aware of the limits imposed (and documented ) by Microsoft :
Windows 2000 allows up to 10 (= TEN ) computers
to simultaneously share a single connection,
either dial-up or broadband , to the Internet. |

The system with the modem or broadband-interface, establishing
the connection to the Internet,
is called the "ICS Host",
while the other systems, which connect now to the Internet via
the
network and the ICS-Host, are called "ICS
Clients".
Windows 2000 ICS
Host Installation
Windows 2000 ICS
Client Installation
Windows 2000 ICS
Advanced Configuration
Windows 2000 ICS
Usage
Windows 95/98/ME ICS
Client Installation
Windows NT4 ICS
Client Installation
Like Windows95/98/ME, Windows 2000 can not use Direct Cable Connection for the
build-in Internet connection Sharing (ICS).
On Windows95/98/ME, you need to use a Non-Microsoft Internet
Connection Sharing
Software or Proxy Server, such as WinRout Lite from Tiny Software
as a DCC-host.
Altough Windows 2000 can not be used with such a non-Microsoft
packages as a DCC-host
sharing an Internet connection, you can use Windows2000 as a
DCC-Client (setup very
similar to a Windows9x
DCC client ) sharing via a
direct-Cable-Connection via a Windows95/98/ME
DCC-host an Internet connection.
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