Hi, earlier I could share my internet connection via Bluetooth to laptop using network bridge, but both computers was under XP at that time... How do I do it now from W7(Enterprise) desktop? Thanks in advance!

Hi,Please refer to the following links to setup Bluetooth on Windows 7:http://www.djkaty.com/vista/bluetoothmodem;http://blogs.technet.com/nking/archive/2009/05/21/using-internet-sharing-on-windows-mobile-6-1.aspx;Thanks,Novak

Did you figure this out? I have the same issue.

Same here. :-) I have no problems establishing a bluetooth connection between desktop PC (with direct internet access) and notebook PC using the PAN profile. File transfers work. Where I find the problem is with windows 7 (and vista, by the way) no longer offering bluetooth connections as an option to pick from under the ICS "sharing tab". Obviously, those bluetooth connections are no longer accepted as "lan connections" - very much in contrast to windows XP! I literally spent entire days trying to resolve this - but apparently, this is a problem that is Microsoft made and started with vista. If there is a working trick (or command line way) to make the bluetooth adapter be recognized and accepted as a "lan adapter" (just like in XP) I would like to hear it. But only if someone really checked his suggestion - I am no longer willing to waste hours and days with untested suggestions or answers that are off topic. Sorry to say so. Like in the initial post (see above) "brigding" the lan connection with the bluetooth connection doesn't work any longer either - once again in contrast to XP. So it looks like a decision made by Microsoft or - else - like an annoying bug introduced with vista and not resolved in windows 7. Sad.

I have the same problem as well. Under Windows XP I could share my PC's Wi-fi connection with my Sony Ericsson phone over bluetooth. I could then access the internet on my phone without paying cellular network charges. This was easy on XP - you could just select the Bluetooth PAN and my Wi-fi connection and right-click to bridge them. Now under Windows 7 there is no right-click option to bridge the connections. This is clearly a problem that is NOT resolved - please could the Microsoft moderator re-mark this thread as such. When can Microsoft also let us hear more about a fix for this issue?

I notice that my previous post was proposed as answer. But as I wrote in another thread: [quote] 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.). [/quote] So the conclusion is: - third party software DOES work - the same problem already exists in windows XP when just using the Microsoft Bluetooth stack (pan connections are not seen as "real" network connections and neither ICS nor bridging works for them!) - when your bluetooth software does not support vista (or windows 7) and you are then using the MS Bluetooth stack instead of your usual software (as in XP) you will get this issue So all in all: - Microsoft Bluetooth stack does not appear to support bluetooth adapters as real network adapters - use third party software like widcomm, toshiba, IVT... but they are not for free (except when bundled with your bluetooth adapter). Please, it there is nothing new to add to this, propose this post as answer. Thanks, egman.

download a software named bluesoleil and establish pan with it and windows 7 will recognize it like lan