{"id":7394,"date":"2005-08-12T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/?p=7394"},"modified":"2022-11-14T22:15:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T22:15:47","slug":"ics-for-win2000-dialup-wan-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/ics-for-win2000-dialup-wan-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>ICS for Win2000 &#8211; DialUp WAN Connection<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20041028083603\/http:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/bio.htm#SteveW\">By Steve Winograd<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ICS is much easier to set up in Win2000 than in Win98SE and WinMe.&nbsp; There&#8217;s no software to install, and it doesn&#8217;t add any network components or protocols.&nbsp; But&nbsp;Win2000 gives you less control over how ICS works.&nbsp; You can&#8217;t:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>disable the DHCP server.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>change the server&#8217;s IP address or the range of addresses allocated by the DHCP server.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>share the connection over two different networks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WARNING #1!<\/strong>&nbsp;These instructions are for Windows 2000 Professional.&nbsp; They don&#8217;t apply to Windows 2000 Server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WARNING #2&nbsp;<\/strong>Don&#8217;t enable ICS if any computer in your network is configured as a domain controller, DHCP server, or DNS server.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t enable it if another computer is running ICS or Network Address Translation (NAT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WARNING #3&nbsp;<\/strong>To enable ICS, you must be logged on as a user which is a member of the Administrators group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WARNING #4!<\/strong>&nbsp;If you establish a Virtual Private Networking (VPN) connection while sharing a different connection, the client computers won&#8217;t be able to access the Internet until the VPN connection is ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Continue below\u00a0<\/strong>for Dialup setup.\u00a0\u00a0<strong><a href=\"\/sharing\/ics\/ics_win2k_install_bband.htm\">Go here<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for Cable Modem or &#8216;DSL setup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Setup for Dialup Connection<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are using a dial-up connection to connect to the Internet in Win2000, you&#8217;ll need to do the following to use ICS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img alt='attentionsml-5855287' src='https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/attentionsml-5855287.gif' width=\"30\" height=\"30\"><strong>NOTE<\/strong>:&nbsp;<strong><em>It&#8217;s important that you have a network card, modem, and dial-up connection installed before you try to set up ICS.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<br>ICS requires&nbsp;<strong>two<\/strong>&nbsp;network connections to work its magic.&nbsp; If it doesn&#8217;t see two (i.e. dial-up and the network card), it won&#8217;t show you the &#8220;<strong>Shared Access<\/strong>&#8221; tab in the dial-up connection&#8217;s properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To prepare for ICS installation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Set up your dial-up connection and test it<\/strong>&nbsp;so that you know you can connect to the Internet.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Set up your LAN with TCP\/IP<\/strong>\u00a0so that you know your computers can communicate with each other. If you don&#8217;t know how to do this, go\u00a0<strong><a href=\"\/sharing\/dialup\/lansetup_dup.htm\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With those steps completed, the rest is easy!&nbsp; Here&#8217;s how I set up Win2000 ICS to share a dial-up connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Open the\u00a0<strong>Network and Dial-up Connections folder\u00a0<\/strong>by right clicking\u00a0<strong>My Network Places<\/strong>\u00a0on your Desktop and selecting\u00a0<strong>Properties<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0Then right click the dial-up connection and select\u00a0<strong>Properties<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"461\" height=\"305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ICS2KDial1-8216238.gif\" alt=\"ics2kdial1-8216238\" class=\"wp-image-7395\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Properties sheet shows the settings associated with the connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"366\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ICS2KDial2-6241431.gif\" alt=\"ics2kdial2-6241431\" class=\"wp-image-7396\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Click the\u00a0<strong>Sharing\u00a0<\/strong>tab, then check the\u00a0<strong>Enable Internet Connection Sharing<\/strong>\u00a0box and the\u00a0<strong>Enable on-demand dialing<\/strong>\u00a0box.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"366\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ICS2KDial3-5328243.gif\" alt=\"ics2kdial3-5328243\" class=\"wp-image-7397\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have more than one network adapter connected to local area networks, you&#8217;ll see this screen instead.\u00a0 Click the down arrow and select the one to use for sharing the dial-up connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"366\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ICS2KDial4-7329840.gif\" alt=\"ics2kdial4-7329840\" class=\"wp-image-7398\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After enabling ICS, click\u00a0<strong>OK<\/strong>.\u00a0 Win2000 warns you that it will change the IP address of the LAN adapter.\u00a0 Click\u00a0<strong>Yes\u00a0<\/strong>to continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"457\" height=\"102\" src=\"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ICS2KDial5-1324745.gif\" alt=\"ics2kdial5-1324745\" class=\"wp-image-7399\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now open the dial-up connection&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Properties<\/strong>\u00a0again and go to the\u00a0<strong>Options<\/strong>\u00a0tab to configure it.\u00a0 The connection will dial automatically when a client computer requests Internet access.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t want to have a window pop up on your screen showing that dialing is in progress, un-check the first box.\u00a0 You can also configure the connection to hang up automatically when it has been idle for a certain length of time. Click\u00a0<strong>OK<\/strong>\u00a0after making the settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ICS2KDial6-8508531.gif\" alt=\"ics2kdial6-8508531\" class=\"wp-image-7400\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The ICS server is now set up, and ICS is running.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t even need to reboot.\u00a0 Now\u00a0<strong><a href=\"\/sharing\/ics\/ics_win2k_client.htm\">go here to configure your Clients.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Steve Winograd ICS is much easier to set up in Win2000 than in Win98SE and WinMe.&nbsp; There&#8217;s no software to install, and it doesn&#8217;t add any network components or protocols.&nbsp; But&nbsp;Win2000 gives you less control over how ICS works.&nbsp; You can&#8217;t: WARNING #1!&nbsp;These instructions are for Windows 2000 Professional.&nbsp; They don&#8217;t apply to Windows 2000 Server. WARNING #2&nbsp;Don&#8217;t enable ICS if any computer in your network is configured as a domain controller, DHCP server, or DNS server.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t enable it if another computer is running ICS or Network Address Translation (NAT). WARNING #3&nbsp;To enable ICS, you must be logged <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7402,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394\/revisions\/7402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}