Can't get bluetooth to work. Please help

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#1874 12-Jul-2004 20:09

I am running a desktop computer with a dsl connection and want to share it with my laptop via 2 bluetooth usb dongles. Both computers meet the minimum requirements to run bluetooth. After installing the software on both computers I am able to make a connection with bluetooth but when it comes to accesing the internet via my server (desktop) computer it will not recognize the connection and gives me "page timed out" messege. I have not been able to find any step by step instructions on how to set up the connection. If anyone has any experience with setting up a laptop to run from a desktop via bluetooth please reply if you think you can help me. You can reply in this forum or please feel free to email me. andrew.marrone@ramstein.af.mil

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#7150 12-Jul-2004 21:23

First make sure you can share your connection on your server machine. You'll need the address 192.168.0.1 if planning to use ICS. Then follow one of our Bluetooth Guides (this one should work). Configure the server as instructed on this guide. Also make sure you add the DNS servers to the Bluetooth adapter configuration.

On your laptop open My Bluetooth Places, and follow until you find the services offered by your server. Double-click the LAN Access service. You should see a dialog like the ones shown when you are starting a dial-up connection. Leave name and password empty, click OK and you should connect. On the server side it should also ask for authorisation, make sure to be around that machine before the request times out.

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#7153 12-Jul-2004 22:43

freitasm, thanks for the info. i will try it after work. one thing tho, i am kind of computer illiterate. what is ICS?

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#7154 12-Jul-2004 22:51

It's Internet Connection Sharing - the service on Windows 2000 and XP that allows one connection to use the Internet from another. Have a look in the guide and you'll see...

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#7156 13-Jul-2004 05:37

Ok freitasm you're awesome! I got the internet connection to work. But the only problem I am having now is that when I try to access certain sites on my laptop via my desktop server computer they won't open. Some of these sites are: hotmail.com, ebay.com. The pages just time out and won't open. If I pull the dsl plug out of my destop and run it directly to my laptop I can access these sites with no problem. I think i might be having an IP conflict or something. Have you heard of this before? Any suggestions? Thanks again