How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

[Mike M]

On 10/14/2008 at 12:03 PM peter at bsdly.net wrote:

|Manish Jain <unxfbsdi at gmail.com> writes:
|
|> I am poor at networking and need a little bit of help. My dad has a 
|> Windows 2000 machine with a network card but does not have a connection 
|> to the internet. 
|
|When I started writing this, I thought that system had been abandoned
|already, but it appears Microsoft will offer a measure of support
|through next year sometime.  Do see that the system gets properly
|updated before you put it on the net.
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Important advice.

I also run Windows 2000 on my home PCs (the ones that are still in the Windows world).    Security updates are still being offered by Microsoft (through next June, I believe).

It is important to bring your Dad's install of Windows 2000 up to the current patch level.  A visit to Windows Update will do the trick for the Windows software.   Other things (e.g., Adobe's Flash, Acrobat reader, etc.) may also need a version refresh to be safe for the 'Net.