xp to w98--I'm 98% there

Hi all--
I have a dell laptop with xp and a wireless networking card and a truemobile base station attached to a desktop machine running 98.

I have performed all the magic to get the machines to communicate and they do EXCEPT I cannot get the laptop to get to the internet. By the way, the desktop accesses the internet via a modem. It gets on line fine, and if I plug the phone line into the laptop it too gets on line. But I can't figure out how to get the laptop going through the network.

As I said, I've followed the wizards and I can read files between the two machines.

I tried to access the internet through the network neighborhood on the laptop and pointed directly to IE on the desktop, but still to no avail.

Any ideas???

Thanks.

Ed

 

You will need some way to share your modem. Windows has ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) built in and it works pretty well once set up. Tons of how-to pages out on the net so a search should leave you in pretty good shape.

Basically, one PC will act as the host/master and make it's modem available as a network resource similar to sharing a printer. The client PC(s) will use the modem from the host rather than their own and will connect that way.

 

Thanks for the reply...

So I need to set that up on the desktop 98 machine, I assume?

 

Yes, I would Install ICS on the "non-mobile" 98 desktop. You can add ICS by going to Add/Remove Programs | Windows Setup (I think) I’m not on a 9x machine right now. There is no need to make and run the ICS setup disk that the ICS install might prompt you to do. After installing ICS, go to the client machines and in Internet Explorer under Tools | Internet Options | Connections choose "Never Dial a Connection." That should do it.

Oh yea, You'll need to disable the built in internet connection firewall on the XP machine.

 

Thanks for the replies...that seems so obvious now, but not at 1 in the morning or again at 6 this morning.

I'll set it up on the 98 machine and hopefully be off to the races.

Thanks again to both of you.

Ed