Hi David-- ICS *should* work given the setup you've described. I'm assuming a couple of things: The network works for you and you can see both machines from each other; you have two network cards in the "server" -- one for the cable modem and one to connect to your internal home network. If you have the cable modem plugged directly into a hub, ICS aint' gonna work for you. Here are a couple of things to check: 1.) Be sure on your internal network you have IP addresses assigned dynamically. 2.) I'm assuming you made the Internet Connection Sharing disk when you installed ICS on the Athon machine. Then, you took this disk and used it on the Win95 machine. 3.) As far as I'm aware, you can't use ICS and a proxy at the same time. In fact, I believe if you check the ICS setup tips, you'll see a warning suggesting you uninstall other sharing software. 4.) That being said, and if ICS is still not working for you, you can setup a proxy very easily and inexpensively. In fact, I can suggest one, AnalogX proxy, which you can download from this site: www.analogx.com . It's free for personal use, and lets you share most things like ICS does. I don't know if it will permit operation of AIM, but you can use email, real networks, even Weather Bug and of course the web browser of your choice. I've not been very successful setting up an FTP client, but the author says he has accomplished this as well. HTH Dave Gibson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 David Hurst wrote: Subject: Windows 98 Internet Connection Sharing I have tried repeatedly to get ICS to work on a simple 2 computer home network; this far without success. One machine is an 800 mhz Athlon computer running Windows 98 SE, connected to a cable internet provider (COMCAST @Home) via a cable modem. Internet connection works fine. The other computer is a Windows 95 Pentium II machine. It is networked to the first computer and the network also works fine. But when i try to set up ICS, the Windows 95 machine cannot access the internet via the 800 mhz one. My internet provider (COMCAST@Home) will not offer any help in this area since they would rather i spend some more money with them to have a second computer hooked up. They tell me i am using a proxy (there is a proxy URL set in my Netscape preferences). Could the proxy be the reason I cant get ICS to work ? And, if so, is there a way to make ICS work while using a proxy ? If its not the proxy, any generic suggestions as to what i could be doing wrong. I basically followed the guidance at Tim Higgins site (timhiggins.com). -- Dave Gibson, [log in to unmask] on 09/24/2000 The NOSPIN Group provides a monthly newsletter with great tips, information and ideas: NOSPIN-L, The NOSPIN Magazine Visit our web site to signup: http://nospin.com