Douglas,

It can be done and is relatively easy to do.

Your designer will need to have both computers networked with normal
Ethernet cards. Then work on the Internet Connection sharing utility that
comes with Windows. Being W2000 more stable than 98, I'd recommend that the
W2000 becomes the server. I would also recommend that the W98 machine is
upgraded to W2000, it will make things a lot easier.

I have three computers at the moment connected to the Net. One with WXP Pro,
one with W2000 and another one with Windows ME. Haven't had any problems
with them and the process has been easier as I upgraded Windows versions
(when I upgraded to WXP Pro the process of setting up the network and
connect the computers to the Internet was automatic and I almost didn't have
to do anything to enable it)

I hope this helps!

Paco.
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Subject: [PRODIG] Sharing a cable connection


One of our designers is off on maternity leave tomorrow and is taking her PC
with her so she can do the occassional job from home. She already has a PC
at home that is connected to broadband NTL with a cable modem and wants to
be able to share the connection.

Does anyone have any experience of doing this? Is it highly technical or
would it simply be easier for her to just keep manually swapping the cable
over? Is additional hardware required?

The machine she is taking home is on Win2K, her home machine is Win98.



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