RRAS or just internet sharing?

Hi All,

My first post here so be gentle!

My network has complete internet access through an ADSL router at 10.0.0.2. All the machines on the network are 10.0.0.x statically assigned atm.

I have connected a wireless adapter to a windows 2000 server machine so I can get on the internet with my laptop.

How do I configure Windows 200 to do this? I've tried turning on the RRAS service to do IP forwarding but no joy.

Help!

Cheers

 

If I understand correctly an "adapter" won't do. You need a wireless access point or router to do this. The adapter would be on the client machine (laptop).

 

You can use a wireless adapter in the server and connect to the laptop in a ad hoc peer to peer arangement. You then have to set up routing on the server so that the laptop can use your server as a router and connect through it to the rest of the network and your internet router. I think the default security set up of a 2000 server will prevent you just using packet forwarding to do this (the simplest way).

Personally, I'd purchase a Wireless Access point and use that to allow wireless devices to connect to the network. It is a lot easier to set up, and you'll save the 50 - 80 quid cost of the Access Point, in time you save faffing about trying to get the server set up correctly.

By the way, it can be easier to use a wireless enabled router as a stand alone wireless access point rather than track down a dedicated access point as the latter aren't so common nowadays. You could replace your internet router with the wireless router, or add the wireless router and just use it as an Access point (that is don't bother with the ADSL/DSL side of things.

 

Went back and read again and noticed we may be saying the same thing.




Reggie,
Sounds like he already has routing on his ADSL because he is stating private Ip addresses.
To spread the joy he could use a standard wireless router for a hub/access point by not using the WAN port on the router.

Not simple for the inexperienced but I do it all the time and could possibly walk someone through it.

Or for the advanced there is probably a way to put that modem in bridge mode and then connect a router to it.

 

Yes, I agree. We are suggesting roughly the same solution.

My point is that a wireless access point/router is likely to be the best solution, but not because the solution sugarat was trying wouldn't work, but rather because it would be relatively difficult to get to work (and I would suggest: therefore more likely to cause problems).

I thought the fact that he described his device as a "ADSL router" was obvious enough. My point on this was that standalone access points aren't so common nowadays in my experience. It is usually easier to buy a wireless router. If this is the case there are two options:

1. Replace the exisiting ADSL router with the new wireless enabled router.
2. Use the router as a wireless access point and ignore/do not use the WAN port.

Personally I'd favour 2. Why rip out the router when it works fine. Also I prefer having the wireless device seperated from the device providing firewalling.

Of course the best solution would be to get a dedicated Wireless Access Point.