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re: Question about 'Share an Internet Connection'
Thursday, July 4, 2002 at 12:51 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DCYFA
(3 messages posted)
Could you be more specific on how you share his internet connection? Do you use a
proxy server, ICS, or etc.?
On Wednesday, July 3, 2002 at 7:16 pm, Shell wrote:
>I have a question about Share
>an Internet Connection:
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>My boyfriend has a cable connection to the internet and we have set up our computers
>on a LAN via a crossover CAT5 cable (his is the server). We can share files and
>I can use my machine to access the internet via his cable connection.
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>However, I cannot work out how to get Outlook Express 6 to check my POP3 mail accounts
>from my machine. I had to set up his OE6 to read my accounts, which works but would
>like to do it from my machine too.
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>I have told OE that I am on a lan and not dial up but I guess it is looking for
the
>Yahoo server on the local area network and, of course, it will never find it. OE
>Help is useless, and so am I, so any advice would be appreciated.
>
>Shell
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