Dial-in Connection or Dial-in Networking

[migz]

Hello! I am in-charge of LAN in our office.

Our network setup is like this: all computers are networked or attached to the ports of a 3COM Switch 4400SE and the computers had the same specs, windows xp pro sp-1 & on-board ethernet adapter.

1 computer (host) has additonal NIC PCI card wherein an external DSL Modem (PPPoE) is connected and configured to share its internet connection to all clients by means of windows ICS. Attached also, is an external US Robotics 58kbps dial-up modem plugged to com1. The modems are plug in to 2 different phone line account.

I had a laptop at home with built-in dial-up modem and running on windows xp home edition.

I need an advice from the experts on how to configure the host to receive dial-in connection and configuration of the laptop to dial-up the host so that I can connect to the internet through the office internet connection.

The catch is: the purpose is not to control remotely any computers in the network but just able to access internet through the office internet connection.

Thanks and more power to this forum.

[mazdarx7-64]

This is not easy, first off why are you doing this. Most people do something like this to access info that is on a server at their office. If you are trying to dial into the server to use the regular old internet, it might be more of a pain than it is worth. Most DSL accounts come with a "back-up" dial-up account, using that "back-up" account when off site would be alot easier than what you are considering. Also if you dial up to the office conection, you will only get dial-up speed or slower, not DSL speed. If you want to do something like that, get ready to buy some kind of VPN hardware, or a windows server OS, I don't think, i might be wrong, that win XP has a VPN function in it.

[migz]

I got this idea from a friend here that it is possible. There's no back-up dial-up account given by our isp.

In searching the internet about this, I was able to come across a layout presented by a certain randy which is exactly the same as our network and added a home laptop which he said connects to internet. Of course, the speed is limited to a dial-up modem.
But, there's no details on how to setup the configuration from both sides. The catch here as he said: is the home laptop to be able to have a free internet connection.
I emailed randy about the step by step procedure, but its been a month now, I got no reply. So, I post it to this forum.

Initially, I try to do it. In the host, I create a new connection to receive an Incoming Connection which will let you create a username and password. An icon for this will appear in the network connections. Then, in the laptop I create a new connection to connect to the internet, isp name is the office, username and password is exactly what i made in the host, phone number is the phone number where the dial-up modem of the host is connected. Then, I try to connect, and it connected with a speed of 33.6kbps. The host show that my home laptop is connected. The taskbar of host, show already 4 blinking icons: the 2 NICS, dsl modem, and the incoming connection.

The problem is: when I try opening a website - cannot display. Maybe, there's something to additionally configure. But, I dont know what.

[migz]

Mazdarx,

Hello! again. Here is the url where I got the layout which depicted exactly the same with our network and DSL connection is shared with both local and remote clients. Maybe you can add and give me the details on how to do it.

www.tuketu.com/dsl/ras-route/rras.htm