5The Bluetooth Guide

Net­work­ing

Bluetooth Per­sonal Area Networks

The Bluetooth spe­cific­a­tion sup­ports the use of Bluetooth for net­work­ing between devices.
If you have a PC with a Bluetooth adaptor and a Bluetooth enabled PDA, laptop,
or other device that sup­por­ted net­work­ing, you should use the fol­low­ing inform­a­tion to set up a net­work con­nec­tion.
Net­work con­nec­tions between a PC and another device can be used for file and print shar­ing, and also for Inter­net access.
A typ­ical example of a Bluetooth PAN would be if you have a Bluetooth enabled desktop PC with broad­band access,
and a laptop with Bluetooth sup­port you can turn your desktop PC into a W.A.P. (wire­less access point)
and use the Inter­net access on your laptop without a need for wires.

The setup of a Bluetooth PAN is depend­ent upon your exist­ing con­fig­ur­a­tion, below are sev­eral options…

• Bluetooth net­work­ing for file and print shar­ing only
• Provid­ing Inter­net access to another device from a PC with a dir­ect Inter­net connection
• Provid­ing Inter­net access to another device from a PC that has Inter­net access through another net­work (e.g. a cor­por­ate LAN)

If you need more detailed or spe­cific inform­a­tion than I have provided, there are some other excel­lent guides for spe­cific plat­forms available

• If you have a Palm, you can go to Whizoo.com
• If you have an iPaq, you can go to PC-Counselor.com
• If you are net­work­ing between 2 PC’s there is more inform­a­tion avail­able at GeekZone.co.nz

Set­ting up a Bluetooth Per­sonal Area Net­work for File & Print Sharing

• Make sure you have fully fol­lowed the main guide
• Pair the devices
• Open the con­fig­ur­a­tion options on the primary PC
• Select the “local ser­vices” tab
• Choose “net­work access” and click on “properties”
• Make sure it is set to “start-up auto­mat­ic­ally”, and change the pull down option to “allow other devices to access the Internet/LAN via this computer”
• If the device you want to con­nect FROM does not sup­port Bluetooth secur­ity prop­erly you need to down­load and run the Dis­able Net­work Secur­ity Registry Frag­ment from the down­loads page
• Make sure that the Bluetooth net­work con­nec­tion is enabled on both devices
• Share the rel­ev­ant folders or print­ers on the main PC
• Con­nect the net­work access option the same way as any other Bluetooth service
• If you want to share files, folders, or print­ers in both dir­ec­tions you should carry out the above pro­ced­ure on both PC’s

Set­ting up a Bluetooth Per­sonal Area Net­work for Inter­net Con­nec­tion Sharing

This method of Inter­net access shar­ing will only work when the host PC has a dir­ect Inter­net con­nec­tion. The host PC must be using Win­dows Me, 2000, XP or 2003 because it uses Inter­net Con­nec­tion Sharing

• Make sure you have fully fol­lowed the main guide
• Pair the devices
• Open the con­fig­ur­a­tion options on the primary PC
• Select the “local ser­vices” tab
• Choose “net­work access” and click on “properties”
• Make sure it is set to “start-up auto­mat­ic­ally”, and change the pull down option to “allow other devices to access the Internet/LAN via this computer”
• If the device you want to con­nect FROM does not sup­port Bluetooth secur­ity prop­erly you need to down­load and run the Dis­able Net­work Secur­ity Registry Frag­ment from the down­loads page
• Click on the “con­nec­tion shar­ing but­ton and if read the help file if you need more information
• Make sure that the Bluetooth net­work con­nec­tion is enabled on both devices
• Share the rel­ev­ant folders or print­ers on the main PC
• Con­nect the net­work access option the same way as any other Bluetooth service
• If you want to share files, folders, or print­ers in both dir­ec­tions you should carry out the above pro­ced­ure on both PC’s

Set­ting up a Bluetooth Per­sonal Area Net­work for Inter­net Con­nec­tion Sharing

This method of Inter­net access shar­ing will only work when the host PC has Inter­net access through a LAN. The host PC must be run­ning Win­dows 2000, XP or 2003 because it uses a Net­work Bridge

• Make sure you have fully fol­lowed the main guide
• Pair the devices
• Open the con­fig­ur­a­tion options on the primary PC
• Select the “local ser­vices” tab
• Choose “net­work access” and click on “properties”
• Make sure it is set to “start-up auto­mat­ic­ally”, and change the pull down option to “allow other devices to access the Internet/LAN via this computer”
• If the device you want to con­nect FROM does not sup­port Bluetooth secur­ity prop­erly you need to down­load and run down­load and run the Dis­able Net­work Secur­ity Registry Frag­ment from the down­loads page
• Open the “Net­work Con­nec­tions” con­trol panel
• Select your primary LAN con­nec­tion (usu­ally called “Local Area Net­work”), and then, hold­ing con­trol, also select your Bluetooth net­work con­nec­tion (usu­ally called “Bluetooth Network”)
• Right click on either of the selec­ted con­nec­tions, and choose “Bridge Connections”
• Make sure that the Bluetooth net­work con­nec­tion is enabled on both devices
• Share the rel­ev­ant folders or print­ers on the main PC
• Con­nect the net­work access option the same way as any other Bluetooth service
• If you want to share files, folders, or print­ers in both dir­ec­tions you should carry out the above pro­ced­ure on both PC’s