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Are you using ICS to share the connection if so, call AOL help line and they will tell you AOL is NOT compatable with ICS.
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Connection sharing - IP but no http
I'm trying to help a nonprofit share their AOL connection. Never used AOL myself so I used the Windows wizards to set it all up. The machine doing the sharing has WinME and the two clients have 98. After sharing the connection, making the share disk, and running the setup wizard on both clients they all work perfectly for shares. When trying to view a web page from the clients, the IP is resolved properly from the URL but then the actual http request times out as not found. The WinME machine connected to the modem doesn't have any problem getting http. Any ideas what's blocking the http transfers while allowing DNS from the clients?
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Comment from Huseyin1 Date: 06/27/2003 08:34AM EST
Hi, Are you using ICS to share the connection if so, call AOL help line and they will tell you AOL is NOT compatable with ICS.
Comment from norbs101 Date: 06/27/2003 12:57PM EST
Make sure that have local IP's on all machines connected to eachother and only the aol adapter should get the dynamic ip.
Comment from ThePowderedToastMan Date: 06/27/2003 10:27PM EST
Also you must make certain that all the machines have the same workgroup identification, are in the same subnet mask and have static ips (the host machine can have a dynamic ip form aol).
Here is your solution.
ICS is unreliable. Use a third-party proxy server as an alternative. I use "Wingate" on my home network. It works pretty good and is easy to setup. Install the proxy server on the machine running the connection to aol.
Bind TCP/Ip to the network adapter for this machine (I'll call it the server for this example). If tcp/ip is already bound to the network adapter then make sure it has a static ip address. this address will be used by the proxy server to handle requests. On the other machines, configure the internet client software to send request to the ip address of the proxy server. Best of luck, let us know if you need further assistance.
Gabe - MCSE
You've been AOLed, har har.
FDISK is probably the easiest way to get back a "normal" protocol stack, the modern versions of 'how to completely remove and reinstall tcp/ip' technet docs don't work as well as they used to.
Huseyin1 is right, AOL client isn't compatable with *anything* but you ought to be able to get the IP settings out of it and set it up again for them.
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by: magarityPosted on 2003-06-27 at 06:25:34ID: 8813155
PS - I assume this is something in the myriad of AOL devices... the thing has three AOL virtual devices in network properties. Not knowing what they all do, I haven't tried to manually fiddle with them yet. I also wasn't there for the original installation so I can't swear that was done properly.