AOL/Windows question

[Allan Carhart <netscape.allan@com>]

Hey guys.

I have a Windows networking issue that I can't seem to resolve.
Between the various Windows experts here, someone must have seen this before.

If you don't know anything about Win95 or don't care, IGNORE THIS EMAIL! :-)

I recently upgraded my parents' computer from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95.
Along with various hardware upgrades, I added a network card which it
never had before.

I set up the computer at my house on my network, where the network card
worked fine.  TCP/IP applications worked (using my internet connection)
through the network card.

So I brought the computer to my parents' house, booted it up, and everything
seemed fine. I logged onto AOL (which my parents use), minimized the AOL
client, and tried other TCP/IP applications like Netscape and telnet.

I could get to the Internet through the AOL/IE browser, but no other
TCP/IP applications would work. I am sure they were trying to use the
network card for TCP/IP instead of using the AOL connection.

The network card will be used only for local file/device sharing, not
Internet access. So how do I tell Windows 95 to use AOL's winsock connection
as its default TCP/IP stack?

If this was Windows 3.1, I'd copy AOL's winsock.dll into the \windows\system
directory to fix this problem. If this was Un*x, I'd add a default route
through the SLIP/PPP interface.  But with Win95, I'm at a loss how to
tell applications which TCP/IP interface to use.

I tried copying the winsock.dll file, but that didn't make a difference.
I also did a "netstat -rn" from a DOS shell, and noticed there was not even
an entry for the PPP link to AOL, let alone a route to it.

Has anyone here dealt with this?

Versions:
Windows 95 (original) with Server Pack 1
Netscape Communicator 4.5 for Windows 95
AOL 4.0 for Windows 95

--Allan