Topic: Extended Routing

[Stephan Goeldi]

This is probably an off-topic question, because it dependes mainly on configuring Windows NT. Bu it is done in a e-smith network:

I have an e-smith server and gateway, a NT workstation and a Notebook on Win98. The workstation and e-smith are connected via 10BaseT wire. This part works very well.

In the Notebook is an ELSA AirLancer wireless network adapter which doesn't work on e-smith (it probably would, if I could compile some stuff on e-smith).

I can connect properly between the workstation and the notebook.

Now I asked myself, if it is a big work, to use the NT workstation as a router between e-smith and my notebook. I not only would like to get access to the network printer on e-smith, but to the i-bay too, and of course to the internet.

Is there any experience with this?

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Hi there,

There are probably extremely simple ways of doing this that I'm overlooking, but here's my two cents...

You could set up a peer-to-peer VPN connection (based on PPTP) between your notebook and the Windows NT workstation.  WinNT Workstation has the capability to provide a single VPN connection service (with WinNT Server, you get many more connections!).

Once you have the VPN service up and running on your workstation, just connect to the workstation from your notebook using a PPTP client (if your notebook is running windows, just use the built-in client).  You should then have access to your entire network, including the e-smith server, etc., from Network Neighborhood on your notebook.

Alternatively, you could set up IP routing software on the workstation, which essentially does the same thing.  The VPN solution might be a little easier to implement, however.

Cheers