On August 22, 2001 05:52 am, Wil McGilvery wrote:
> If you are using the Windose ME box to connect to the cable ISP, you should
> not have to worry about your workgroup name. I use Rogers@home and used to
> have a similar set up that you describe. With the windows machine, I
> assigned it the workgroup name of the internal network I wished to use and
> configured the external network card to use DHCP.
>
> To be able to route through the windose machine, you can use the built in
> Internet Connection Sharing (which is pitiful) or a third party program
> such as Nevod 1000. You can't get Nevod 1000 anymore from a web site. It
> was bought out by M$. It is a nice program and works well. I can send you a
> copy if you wish.
The workgroup is irrelevant. I've never found a way in windows (would love
to) to pass the hostname required as an option to dhcp though. Very nice in
linux as I strongly dislike those annoying userids.
David Aikema
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