--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Cutrona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You need to run a proxy server on your windows machine. A easy to >setup app is proxyx found at http://www.analogx.com/ >It is this app that allows you to share the connection by putting >in a ip address and putting this address into the proxy settings >into your browser with a port number of 3128.
Whilst this is getting very offtopic, proxy servers are certainly not the best option for sharing an internet connection. If the windows machine is Win2k/XP, then Right-click on the network connection, which you wish to share, whether it be LAN or dialup, and select Properties. Click on the Advanced/Sharing tab up the top, and enable sharing. Hey, it even does DHCP. If the machine is Win98SE/ME, install ICS, and run the setup wizard. This gives you a NAT connection, of which you can perform nearly any task as if the internet connection was directly connected to that computer, without any configuration of specific programs on any computer, mac, pc or other. Proxy servers are extremely limited in what they can do, and can cause huge headaches. To configure a program to have access to the internet, it must have proxy support, and you must manually go through and input the ip address and port and type of proxy into every program. Anything which needs to connect to he internet which doesn't support a proxy won't be able to connect to the interent. ie, quite a lot of automatic update facilities within anti-virus programs. Specifically with regards to AnalogX, certain versions have the uncanny ability to be spammed off if set up as a mail proxy, and the even more uncanny ability for it to be used as an anonymous proxy for anyone in the world. From personal experience, I would certainly recommend staying away from it. But hey, thats just my 2c Regards Trevor Lee
