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| wbafrank 2002-06-20, 3:05 pm |
| This question was asked at the end of my Tue W2K Professional Question of the Day and may help others who have the same problem ....
AOL installs it's own software within Windows XP, which will stop, more than one connection. Thus the ICS setup will not work through the AOL connection. Maybe time to consider a new ISP so that your Internet needs can be met.
But I have figured out how to use AOL and ICS with XP, except this is extremely difficult and must be done every time you log on. While dialing up to AOL open up your network connections folder. While AOL is on step 5: talking to network, you will see a connection called 'The Internet' APPEAR. As soon as it appears right click it and quickly go down to properties. You must be quick because otherwise it will disappear as soon as it goes off step 5. While in properties, click 'Show notification in area when connected' then click ok. Refresh your network connections folder, and then you will see a dial up connection called 'The Internet' at 10mbps. You can then configure ICS to use this connection.
Hope this helps ..... | |
| Pavlov 2002-06-20, 3:09 pm |
| What a pain in the butt! Nice discovery wbafrank, but I gotta go with "change your ISP". AOL and their proprietary browser are a major pain to work with. | |
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| LOL  AOL and XP??? AOL??? Some people just ask for it 
AOL has always been a pain with their own proprietary dial-up software. No wonder it's number one... in the crappy ISP list | |
| necrophantasm 2002-06-20, 8:16 pm |
| I personally feel that AOL is the truly evil (even more so than Microsoft) and fully uses their software to own your computer. Good job on that trick frank, I'm glad I have never had to figure that one out! | |
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| BTW, how about using NAT instead of ICS? It would certainly work better... | |
| necrophantasm 2002-06-21, 4:24 am |
| Does XP pro have NAT support? I haven't taken the XP test yet, but as far as I knew only Server products support it (RRAS). | |
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| necrophantasm 2002-06-21, 4:35 am |
| I saw them saying that XP has "NAT traversal". I feature that detects the presence of a NAT device on the network and uses it. I didn't see them say anything about using XP Pro or home as a NAT device though... | |
| TW2001 2002-06-21, 11:11 am |
| AOL is using proprietory protocols. No ICS.
NAT Traversal relies on the NAT device providing UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) Uh thats not good.
May as well say NAT transvering exploitable buffer overflow providing system level access...
XP does not shine with this one. |
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