Re: XP Internet Connection Sharing

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From: Menno Hershberger (mhersh22_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/03/04 

Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 10:12:44 -0700

Menno Hershberger <mhersh22@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:Xns953A6C5833A2Dbutter@207.46.248.16:

> I have successfully set up ICS on several XP computers before. I
> don't
> see a newsgroup (in English) specific to XP and networking, so I'm
> bringing this one here.
> I am working on a customers XP Home Edition computer who wants to
> share
> his dialup connection with another computer at home. He has the cables
> and a hub and seemingly had it set up right. However he had other
> problems, so I brought the computer in to my place to work on it. I've
> got everything else working now and am trying to set it up to share
> with one of my own computers (actually I've tried it with two
> different computers). Although I know how to set them up manually, I
> used the "Wizard" and even the floppy disk to set them up.
> His computer (host) dials in and the internet connection works
> fine. His
> computer and mine can see each other just fine... his is assigning an
> IP to mine. I can share files between the two just fine, but there's
> no internet connection available on the client. Also I cannot "ping"
> the host computer (192.168.0.1) from the client or vice versa. The XP
> firewall is turned off and no software firewalls are turned on. I've
> tried typing in IP addresses in the browser instead of names in case
> it was a DNS problem. No joy that way either. I've tried it with both
> an XP computer and a Windows 98 one. I feel certain that the problem
> lies with my customer's computer. Can anyone give me any ideas on
> this? I've Googled all over the place and found plenty of places that
> tell you how to set it up, but none that tells you what to do if it
> doesn't work! They all say that you should be able to ping the other
> computer.
>
OK, for what it's worth, I reversed the situation. Made one of my Win98
computers the host and set up ICS. Dialed in with the modem, went to my
client's computer (reconfigured as client) and can access the internet
just fine with his computer through my Win98's dialup connection.
   Why the *&!*! won't it work the other way around? 

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