Re: Woe is me....new thread....part of problem fixed. Thanks to Steve Winograd and others

From: Steve Winograd [MVP] (winograd_at_pobox.com)
Date: 02/03/04 

Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 22:16:27 -0700

In article <upzkWRf6DHA.2656@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>, "MrB"
<brooksro@REMOVEALLCAPSadelphia.net> wrote:
>The scenario:
>3 Computers......1 W2k Pro connected to a dial-up to the Internet, 2 XP
>Pro laptops acting as workstations and wishing to share the W2k internet
>connection. There is an active connection with an ISP (not AOL) on the W2k
>machine. The dial-up connection is set to share. What else do I need to do
>to get the XP computers to use the W2k dialup?
>
>The network is now functioning without NETBEUI. TCP/IP is the only protocol.
>Each computer is assigned an IP address and subnet mask. The problem I had
>had that required NETBEUI was the peer to peer node. This was fixed by a
>registry edit as suggested by Steve. All computers can now see each other
>and share files.
>
>The W2k machine has an IP address of 192.168.0.1, the 2 workstations have
>addresses of 0.2 and 0.3. They all have subnet masks of 255.255.255.0. The
>workstations just time out when IE tries to find a website. I am close, but
>not there yet. I have spent much time at the Practically Networked website,
>to no avail.
>
>
>Thanks,
>MrB

I'm glad that my tip help you solve the problem and eliminate NetBEUI,
MrB. Thanks for letting the news group know the result.

Configure W2k Pro as an ICS host, as shown here:

ICS for Win2000 - DialUp WAN Connection
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/ics/ics_win2k_install_dup.htm

Configure XP as an ICS client, as shown here:

XP ICS - Client Setup Using the Network Setup Wizard
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_ics/clientwiz.htm 

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