>Hi Eric;
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>Sharing remote drives I haven't done. Haven't tried either, but I think it would be powerful.
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>Before I got the ADSL modem, I had a regular 28.8 dialup. I had two PC's at home connected with some thin-net ethernet. One for me and one for the kids to use. Their machine had the modem. I installed WinGate software on their machine which then allowed me to access the web from my PC. Wingate acted like a software proxy server. It was great, both PC's could connect to the web at the same time! In fact, if I opened IE on my PC, in about 15 seconds the modem on the other machine would start dialing out!
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That's pretty cool. I'm still fogy on how it works internally though- when ou hit a web site, what IP does the server see as the requestor? I imagine that there is some smoke and mirrors going on, and that's why HTTPS dowsn't work- you have to get a key that works with only the IP of the machine that sent the initial request-