Hiya, > I do have a Laptop and a PC both running Windows 2000 and are > connected to each other thru a hub. The hub is connected to my cable > modem. So, only my Labtop can have internet access and gets the ip > address from dhcp server. Therefore, I think I am NOT be able to use > IP for their connection since they are not in the same subnet. What's > the best way to have remote desktop sharing between them? That's a tough one! But I can think of two ideas :-) 1) Get hold of an old 486 / low end Pentium and install Freesco. It's a floppy disk based linux that acts as a router and a firewall. I'm not a unix expert and I found it pretty easy to set up. The linux router would need two network cards. One plugging to the cable modem and this would collect the DHCP address from your cable modem. The second card would have your own private IP range attached to it (probably 10.0.0.1 with subnet 255.255.255.0) and you should plug this into your hub. You can then give static IP addresses to your laptop and PC - say 10.0.0.2 and 10.0.0.3). This would give you your own private IP network behind a firewall - so no-one should be able to reach your PCs through the cable modem. You'd also be able to run VNC if you wanted :-) 2) Put two network cards in the PC and put a proxy program on it. One network card should go into the cable modem (DHCP address) and the other card should have 10.0.0.1 on it. The proxy software would collect Internet data on behalf of your laptop. The downside is that you'd need some sort of firewall to protect your windows 2000 box and the PC would always need to be on for Internet access to work. However, you would have your own private network AND again, you'd be able to run VNC. Wingate (www.deerfield.com) has a fully fucntioning demo proxy you can use and it comes with a 2 user license for evaluation. Sounds just right to me! :-) 3) If you couldn't use IP as you didn't take either of those options. You could get PC Anywhere which will run over IPX and I *think* you could use NetMeeting, although I found it a little unfriendly. Hope that helps! Richard email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.darkage.co.uk/ "Service, price, quality: pick any two." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send a message with the line: unsubscribe vnc-list to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
