networking and AOL

[Ex-Aol]

I tried to do this - then gave up. AOL told me they do
not support ICS in any way, but this was about 12 months
ago.

>-----Original Message-----
>does anyone know how to set up ICS when using AOL? i
>can't seem to get it to work.
>.
>

[Steve Winograd]

In article >, "Ex-Aol"
> wrote:
>>does anyone know how to set up ICS when using AOL? i
>>can't seem to get it to work.
>
>I tried to do this - then gave up. AOL told me they do
>not support ICS in any way, but this was about 12 months
>ago.

It isn't possible to share an AOL dial-up connection in Windows XP
using Internet Connection Sharing. That's documented in this
Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

Internet Connection Sharing Clients Cannot Connect If Host Is Using an
AOL Dial-Up Connection
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321644

Here's a free proxy server program that runs on Windows XP and can let
other computers access the Internet through an AOL connection:

AnalogX Proxy
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/proxy.htm

The other computers won't be able to log into AOL, because AOL only
allows one screen name to log in at a time. They will be able to use
other Internet programs, like Internet Explorer, email programs, news
readers, etc.
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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