Re: WinXP Home and Pro ICS help

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From: Chuck (none_at_example.net)
Date: 04/10/04 

Date: 10 Apr 2004 14:33:10 -0500

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 11:01:09 -0700, "Alan" <*email_address_deleted*> wrote:

>after a lot of playing around I got the networking
>between my PC. one is XP Home the other Pro. file sharing
>is fine at the moment. now I can't seem to get ICS to work
>( I need to share my dial up connection ). the host
>computer is using XP Home and the client is using XP Pro.
>
>I have a laptop with XP Home and all I need to do is plug
>in the network cable and it can use the net just fine.
>I've tried emulating the laptop's settings on the XP Pro
>machine but that doesn't work. With or with out the
>firewall on it still the XP Pro machine can't reach the
>net whereas the laptop has perfect access to the internet
>with or without the firewall. the only site I know of and
>have since checked is http://www.ChicagoTech.net
>
>any help here would be cool. thank you

Alan,

Please describe your network in more detail. How does the internet connect to
the ICS host? Is the ICS host the XP Home or Pro? How are you connecting the
two computers - direct cable (cross-over hopefully) or router?

Remember for ICS to work, you have to have a separate network connection for the
internet input, and for the shared internet output, on the ICS host. And the
ICS client has to use DHCP (obtain settings automatically).

Here are a couple websites with useful tutorials:
http://www.cablesense.com/
http://www.homenethelp.com/

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Cheers,
Chuck
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