Re: ICS not working after XP SP2?

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From: Richard Goh (me_at_mailinator.com)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 21:46:28 -0700

Check your firewall setting on your network.
MS turns the firewall on by default.
You want a firewall on your internet connection, but not on your LAN.

"Nick" <Nick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:40F6D403-9C1B-4A9A-935F-3AA58698644D@microsoft.com...
> I have two PCs sharing an internet connection both use WinXP Home Edition.
> One is set as host via the network wizard and the other as client. The
host
> connects to ntl:
>
> Before installing service pack 2 i could "see" other computers on the
> network and share their files and also share the internet connection.
Since
> installing sp2 (on both PCs) the network doesn't work at all.
>
> I'm fairly experienced with ICS and tried manually configuring the TCP/IP
> settings (using static IPs etc) this allowed the sharing of files but not
the
> net connection.
>
> I tried running the net wizard again, disabling the firewall completely,
> doing a clean installation of xp then putting sp2 on top on both PCs but
> still no luck. Eventually I removed sp2 and everything is fine again.
>
> Any ideas what might have caused this?
>
> Cheers,
> Nick

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