Hi, i was wondering if anyone could help me with connecting two networks together. I'm at a college that has its own network and only allows one ip for each ethernet port (one to a room). My roommate and I use ICS to bridge this problem (2 NICs and a crossover cable), but we want more. We want to be able to browse and be browsed on the network. As it is only my roommate can see and be seen on it. We need my machine to be able to browse and share also. Currently we are using win2k advanced server for the computer directly connected to the network and we've tried setting up our own workgroup, but this hasn't worked so far. Is it even possible to do what i'm asking? Thanks for any help given.

Yeah I think it can be done but it will be tetious. I cannot guide you through the process but hopefully a network expert can (clutch around still?).

I think you can use a switchs uplink port and connect it to their network... It may still not allow that many computers on the network because of IP usage restrictions.

You might have to talk to the network admin to see if you can get more computers in there...

Well, browsing across two different classes of networks will be a problem. You aren't using a traditional router, and there doesn't seem to be a common workgroup that you are all using. Also, you guys are using Network Address Translation (NAT) to get both of your PCs to connect using the same IP assigned by your network admin. The best thing to do would be to setup a FTP server on your Win2K Server for sharing out and receiving files.

Here's a spiffy guide to setting up a peer to peer network in Windows 2000 Pro, and I am trying to find the one I saw on Technet a few days ago for setting up a domain with Win2K Server.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q258/7/17.ASP