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Frank,

you need a NAT based firewall/proxy software that allows you to define your
machine with the internet connection as the default gateway of your network.
Then you can enable routing on your server.

Linux can do this pretty out of the box, on NT there are commercial
solutions such as Checkpoint Firewall-1 ($$$$). I do not have any experience
with shareware NAT programs for NT.

On a Windows only network, you could use MS Proxy (Needs NT 4.0 SP3) and
install the proxy client software on every Win95. The proxy client basically
replaces the TCP/IP API (wsock32.dll) and redirects all socket calls to the
proxy server. This works quite well for most client programs that do not
listen() on a specific port. A benefit of MS Proxy is that you can
enable/disable protocols on a NT Username/Group Level.

Erwin
MCSE


Frank Hansen wrote in message ...
>Hi,
>
>I have a LAN with approx. 20 PC's. with a NT 3.51 server and all other
>running Win95. On one of the Win95-machines I'm running a proxy (Right now;
>WinGate but I've tried several others).
>
>Like this:
>
>         -------
>            -------
>       | PC1 | ---------- ------------|     |--------------------------|
NT
>|
>         -------                            ----------
>         --------
>                                            |  HUB  |
>         -------                            ----------
>          -------  WinGate
>       | PC2 | -----------------------|     |--------------------------|
PC3
>|----------------------> INTERNET
>         -------
>             -------
>
>But when I want the other PC's in the network to get ie. mail, I hap to map
>a port in Wingate, pointing on my mailserver, and then ask my other PC to
>connect to IP 168.0.0.121  (IP of PC3)
>
>Now my question is; isn't there an easier way to do this? Othervise
programs
>like RealAudio, IRC and all those wont work unless I go out and map a port
>everytime I find a new program to use... AND I have to know what IP it
wants
>to connect to, since I have to tell that to WinGate. And Since you don't
use
>the same source in RealAudio and IRC I have to write down their DNS, go out
>to WinGate and enter it, restart WinGate, and THEN I can connect to the
>source.... IT SUX!!!!
>
>Any help on this will be GREATLY appreciated...
>
>~Fr@nk.
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