Internet Sharing

[Chris]

I have a crossover cable, and I have 2 comps networked (one, comp1, 1.2ghz AMD Athlon, Windows ME, the other, comp2, Pentium 200mhz, win95)
I want to share my cable connection on comp1 with comp2. But it doesn't work. The windows ME internet connection sharing protocol didn't work. The windowsME help was kinda confusing, and I was leaving soon, so didn't try it. But now I have a week to figure out what to do.

SO, does anyone know some good internet-sharing software out there that is compatable with these 2 different OS's?

[AEstud]

just get yourself a little lynksys router then just run cables from the router to the 2 computers.

[Chris]

I would rather slug it out with the Windows help then spend $100 on a router. So I guess I will keep looking for a free solution

[ACCORD EX]

when is comes to network programs ! windows sucks !!!
starting from DCC( direct cable conection ) to protocol sharing ! so just get any kinda of software for this task ! or try windows 98 SE it works better than ME but still sucks !

MIKE

[AEstud]

98 SE? for networking? just get NT, SE doesn't do real well with networking.

[AEstud]

ya know what? screw windows all together, get linux or unix.

[Chris]

Originally posted by AEstud
ya know what? screw windows all together, get linux or unix.

Mom hates those (her computer, and she doesn't want anything other than WinME) Oh well. I get to try and network them again Friday

[ACCORD EX]

Originally posted by AEstud
98 SE? for networking? just get NT, SE doesn't do real well with networking.

i suggested 98 SE because it's a good system for everything ! but ofcourse NT is better in ONLY networks ! and 2000 is much better ! but forget about the games !

MIKE

[CivicEx95]

Windows ME ICS sucks ass. Causes all sorts of problems. Get Win2K or XP and use that built in connection sharing. It kicks ass.

[ACCORD EX]

xp got a security bug ! ( admited by microsoft )

MIKE

[Moppie]

Originally posted by ACCORD EX
xp got a security bug ! ( admited by microsoft )

MIKE

What version of windows dosn't have a security bug.




Getting two differnt versions of windows to network is always hard.
Iv only ever done it between win98 and 95.
And even then it was rather unstable.

[ACCORD EX]

lol 1! :hehehe: :hehehe: :hehehe: :hehehe:


MIKE

[Chris]

I got her to let me install XP (I kinda like it now, I admit, I finally caved ) So we will see how that works. (And the ME help said that windows was missing a critical file, which it wouldn't let me install from the CD, which meant a re-install. It also told me to run IPCONFIG on my bros comp, which doesn't have this. Oh well. I will get it this weekend or one of the computers will die!!!!! (I hate to lose )

[CivicEx95]

you have to run ipconfig from the ms dos prompt

Start-Run-cmd

And networking windows machines of different versions is easy, as long as they are all setup on the same subnet and workgroup

[igor@af]

We use a NetGear wireless DSL/Cable router Model MR314 - works great. It connect a PC on Win98 and a laptop on XP