I'm trying to enable ICS in windows 7.ICS client is connected via Bluetooth PAN. Internet to host computer is connect via Ethernet card.WhenI have only 2 network adapters (NIC and BT), internet sharing tab is not available in TCI/IP properties,I use trick and install "dummy" Microsoft Loopback card, then enable ICS on ethernet card.This procedure to enable internet sharing with BT PAN,works under Windows XP but not under Windows 7. I tried todisable firewall - no effect. XP has firewall enabled.Any hints how to enable ICS with bluetooth PAN?

You should disable the firewall on Windows XP as well until ICS competes.

Did you figure this out? I would really like to get this to work. There's no reason it shouldn't. I have the exact same issue.

This is one of my issues with windows 7 (and vista, by the way), too! My situation is the same: 1) Main PC with one NIC, connected to the router (internet connection via DSL) 2) Notebook computer connected to that PC via bluetooth (pan profile) When the main PC runs windows XP, the LAN adapter offers the ICS tab and lets me pick the bluetooth connection as one of the available choices for a lan connection (I also have virtualbox and vmware lan connections available). Hence the notebook computer not only gets a local connection with the desktop PC, but also has access to the internet! By contrast, when I boot my main PC (1) into windows 7 (or vista, doesn't matter - I have image backups available, so I can easily "install" windows 7 or vista to my main PC), the situation is completely different: I DO NOT have the ICS tab available for the lan adapter! But (in analogy to the trick with the dummy adapter mentioned above...) I GET this ICS tab as soon as I install vmware. BUT: This ICS tab only offers lan connections for the virtual vmware lan adapters! In contrast to using XP for the main PC the bluetooth connection is no longer offered as an option for a lan adapter in the ICS tab. In other words: Internet connection sharing between the windows 7 PC and the notebook (which runs XP, by the way) does NO LONGER WORK. This is a regression - and I cannot understand why this was done in windows 7 (and vista already)!? A bluetooth connection may seem to be old-fashioned, but in my case, it is still a very useful way of sharing the internet between 2 computers. The reason is: My wifi connection at home is very easily disturbed by other people (other wifi networks, cellphones etc.), while my bluetooth connection is rock solid. My bluetooth adapter is a bluefritz! usb 2.0 - and the software that the company AVM provides does not offer the PAN profile any longer for vista and windows 7 - I wonder why? There is one final word to say: If one is really desperate, one may try "bluesoleil" - I used their demo software (which is ridiculously cripple to only allow 2 MB of transfer!!). With bluesoleil the ICS tab DOES offer the bluetooth connection as one of the options for a lan connection to share!! So why does the bluetooth generic adapter provided by windows 7 (and vista) not offer this possibility? thanks, egman

Hello, I have this problem too. The Sharing tab is not available in my network connection in order to share internet with the bluetooth pan. Microsoft please fix it !

I already wrote it in another thread a few minutes ago. Sharing LAN adapters and Bluetooth adapters to get internet access via Bluetooth does not seem to work with the Microsoft Bluetooth stack. Third party software DOES work, though!! I tested a) Toshiba BT stack, b) Bluesoleil by IVT, c) Widcomm. And I had a working setup of sharing the Internet via Bluetooth connection between the desktop PC (with internet access) and the notebook computer (connected to the PC via Bluetooth). Those third party solutions are not for free, though (except - perhaps - in combo with a specific notebook or bluetooth adapter etc.). Hope, this helps. egman