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How to Enable Internet Connection Sharing on Network Connection [Q237254]

PSS ID Number: Q237254
Article last modified on 02-10-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
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SUMMARY
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With the Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) feature of network and dial-up
connections, you can use Windows 2000 to connect your home network or small
office network to the Internet. For example, you may have a home network that
connects to the Internet by using a dial-up connection. By enabling ICS on the
computer that uses the dial-up connection, you are providing network address
translation, addressing, and name resolution services for all computers on your
home network.

MORE INFORMATION
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To enable Internet Connection Sharing on a network connection:

1. In Control Panel, double-click "Network and Dial-Up Connections".

2. Right-click the connection you want to share, and then click Properties.

3. On the Sharing tab, click to select the "Enable Internet Connection Sharing
for this connection" check box.

4. If the connection you are sharing is a Dial-up connection and you want the
connection to dial automatically when another computer on your home network
attempts to use external resources, click to select the "Enable on-demand
dialing" check box.

NOTE: To enable ICS, you must have administrative rights.

IMPORTANT: You should not use this feature on a computer running DNS server or
DHCP server or a Windows 2000 Domain Controller.. When you enable ICS, the
network adapter connected to the home or small office network is given a new
static IP address configuration. Existing TCP/IP connections on the CS computer
are lost and need to be re-established.

Configuration and Usage Issues
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The Internet Connection Sharing feature is intended for use in a small office or
home office in which the network configuration and the Internet connection are
managed by the Windows 2000-based computer on which the shared connection
resides. It is assumed that on its network, this computer is the only Internet
connection, is the only gateway to the Internet, and that it sets up all
internal network addresses.

You cannot modify the default network configuration after enabling ICS. This
includes items such as the range of private IP addresses that are handed out
(DHCP allocator), enabling or disabling DNS, configuring a range of public IP
addresses, or configuring inbound mappings.

If your home office users need to gain access to a corporate network that is
connected to the Internet by a tunnel server from a ICS network, they need to
create a virtual private network (VPN) connection to tunnel from the computer on
the ICS network to the corporate tunnel server on the Internet. The VPN
connection is authenticated and secure, and creating the tunneled connection
allocates proper IP addresses, DNS server addresses, and WINS server addresses
for the corporate network.

You may need to configure programs and services to work properly across the
Internet. For example, if users on your home network want to play a game with
other users on the Internet, the game must be configured on the connection in
which ICS is enabled. Services that you provide must be configured so that
Internet users can gain access to them. For example, if you are hosting a Web
server on your home network and you want Internet users to be able to connect to
it, you must configure the Web Server service.