Have a dongle on a Win98 laptop that "sees" an identical dongle on my XP desktop. Can anyone advise ( In regular English rather than technospeak) or give a link where I can look up how to allow the laptop to access the Xp machine for internet access please? Googled but so many variations on a theme it's a little confusing Many thanks -- -- Robbo Trophy 1200 1998 BMW K100 RS 1984 "Fairly Quick" status. Silver level BotaFOF #19. E.O.S.M 2001/2002/2003/2004. B.O.S.M 2003, 2004 FURSWB#1 KotL..YTC449 PM#7 ..
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/learnmore/ics.mspx -- Steve Parry http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk http://www.arrivedeprived.org.uk/ K100RS SE F650 (not forgetting the SK90PY)
I'm pretty sure you can't use a bluetooth link to share a net connection , only to transfer files at a very slow speed. A couple of network cards and a crossover cable would be much easier and faster. -- Alex "I laugh in the face of danger" "Then I hide until it goes away" www.drzoidberg.co.uk www.sffh.co.uk www.upce.org.uk
Better thell my Ipaq that then It's not a great idea though. I'd do the LAN card thing -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) Alfa 116 Giulietta 3.0l (Really) Sprint 1.7 75 2.0 TS Triumph Speed Triple: Black with extra black bits www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
Many thanks Steve, but my network works OK, although it's only 2 machines. What I was hoping to do was connect through the 2 dongles to the internet etc. The machines are *paired* but I can't transfer files or connect through the 2 dongles. Maybe I am assuming the wrong things from the devices. -- -- Robbo Trophy 1200 1998 BMW K100 RS 1984 "Fairly Quick" status. Silver level BotaFOF #19. E.O.S.M 2001/2002/2003/2004. B.O.S.M 2003, 2004 FURSWB#1 KotL..YTC449 PM#7 ..
You cant share an internet connection between 2 desktops via bluetooth. Bluetooth was designed for sending small files and synchronising.
Erm, yes you can. Missing Sync on the Mac will let a BT equipped Pocket PC / Palm share a connection via a BT Equipped Mac. I'm pretty sure you can also do this with a PC - but it might need WinXP.
But that has the activesync software designed to do that for PDAs. There isn't an equivalent for desktop OSs that I'm aware of. -- Alex "I laugh in the face of danger" "Then I hide until it goes away" www.drzoidberg.co.uk www.sffh.co.uk www.upce.org.uk
AFAIK, but I'm not going to un-install it to check, the network connection has hothing to do with active sync. It hooks directly into the service provided by my MSI dongle direct from the OS ISTBC though. -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) Alfa 116 Giulietta 3.0l (Really) Sprint 1.7 75 2.0 TS Triumph Speed Triple: Black with extra black bits www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
try telling windows (in network connections) to bridge the network connection on the machine with the internet access. -- ColonelTupperware, spouting bollocks on Usenet since 1997 Usenet FAQ at http://www.its.caltech.edu/its/services/internetapps/news/news2.shtml UPCE FAQ at http://upce.org.uk/ UKRM FAQ at http://www.ukrm.net/faq/
"The first thing to do is set up Windows Interet Connection Sharing. The help files will tell you how to do this, but it isn't that complex. Then open up My Bluetooth Places, and select "View My Bluetooth Services" (or "My Device" from Windows explorer). This is a list of all the BT services your computer offers to other BT devices. Right-click on "My Network Access", and select "Allow remote devices to access the Internet/LAN via this computer". Then you can switch on your other computer, and pair the two BT devices. To do this, make sure the first computer is set to discoverable ("Let other Bluetooth devices discover this computer" on the second page of the options screen), and then start the Bluetooth setup wizard on the second computer. Select the second option "I want to find a specific Bluetooth device...", and wait for it to find the first computer. Then it will present you with a list of services the first computer offers; amongst them will be "network access", or something similar. Make sure this is set to automatically connect, and it should all work."[1] And your sigsep is broke. Fix that first. Soy. [1] I haven't tried this.
