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I have a PC on Windows Millennium Edition, and an iBook. I want to connect the PC to the Internet via internal modem, and share the Internet services with the iBook through an Ethernet network. I also want to share the printer through the Ethernet network.
Once you have the Ethernet network in place and have the PC and the iBook attached to it, you can share your dial-up connection with the iBook using Windows Internet Connection Sharing (ICS). This Microsoft document provides an overview of ICS installation and use. To enable ICS, click on the add/remove programs icon in the Control Panel screen, then double-click on Internet tools on the windows setup tab. Check the ICS box, click OK and follow the prompts in the ICS wizard. This lets you set up your PC as the network gateway to the Internet for your Ethernet. Set the gateway (or default route) setting on your iBook to point at the PC running ICS and you should be able to reach the Internet from the iBook. Check out this document if you run into trouble. There are also commercial and shareware firewall gateways available for Windows that predate the ICS feature in Windows 98 and above. Comsocks from www.linkbyte.com/ is about the best I found for less than $50, before I upgraded my home connection from dial-up to broadband.
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