.Sharing your files and Internet Connection
This is the final step in getting your home LAN and ICS to work. You will need to share drives on each machine and then Map them so that each time you restart, your connection will still be there, and also install ICS.
| Step 1. | Sharing Drives | |
| Step 2. | Select Drive | |
| Step 3. | Shared | |
| Step 4. | Mapping a Drive | |
| Step 5. | Map Server | |
| Step 6. | Map Client | |
| Step 7. | Mapped | |
| Note* | Warnings | Please read before installing ICS |
| Step 8. | Install ICS | |
| Step 9. | ICS Setup | |
| Step 10. | LAN Settings | |
| Step 11. | ICS Configuration | Only needed if you have problems with chat programs. |
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Double click the My Computer icon on the
Desktop, right click the drive you want to share (in this case its C:,
but you can share any drive including floppy's, CD's, and
printer's), then click Sharing .
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Tick Shared As and Full, as shown in pic,
then click Ok.
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When you return to this window you will notice
the little hand under any drive you have shared. Once this is done all
you need to do is to Map the drives so that they can be accessed from each
PC.
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Open Windows Explorer, click on tools, then
click Map Network Drive.
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Type in the name of your Server PC
as shown (the same name you as the Server Identification, usually
Co3XXXXX-a, or something similar), the drive letter will be
automatically assigned to the next available letter. Tick Reconnect at
logon as shown. Next Back to top |
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Type in the name of the client PC (again the
name of your client PC Identification), as you can see, I have this one
named according to the PC spec's for easy identification.
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As you can see, the mapped drives will now
show up in Windows Explorer as a new drive with the name you gave it, i.e. C on Pii450 (note the drive letter in bracket's, that is how windows
recognises each drive).
The last thing you need to is to install ICS.
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NOTE : This section is only done on the
server PC, you will need your Win98SE CD (or WinME), and a blank
formatted Floppy disk.
Open your Control Panel, double click Add/Remove Programs, click on the Windows Setup tab. Scroll down until you see Internet Tools, highlight it as shown and then click Details.
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Tick Internet Connection Sharing, then click
Ok, this will start the ICS wizard which will ask you which NIC you want
to use for your Internet connection and which NIC to use for your home
Network.
Select your Shared NIC to connect to the Internet and your other one for home (obviously). The ICS wizard will now make a client disk (which you have to make, but will not need to use). Once the Wizard is finished you will be asked to reboot once again, when it restarts go to the next step.
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Right click your Internet Explorer icon, click
on properties, then select Connections.
Click on the Sharing button which will take you to the next window. |
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Make sure the correct NIC's are selected and
tick both Settings boxes as shown, then click OK .
Now click on the LAN Settings button and set it up as per the next pic.
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This configuration seems to work best with the
@home proxy server, and most people have it set up as shown.
Click Ok and then Ok again, you should now have a new little icon in your system tray that looks like this.
Now, if everything has gone to plan, you should now be able to share your Internet connection on both/all PC's.
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