Re: Shared Connection Difficulty, DNS?

From: Doug Sherman [MVP] (dsherman_at_nospam.tampabay.rr.com)
Date: 08/05/04 

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 23:59:13 -0400

Possibly:

1. MTU issue - See:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;319661; or

2. Try manually configuring the client:

On the host computer connect to the Internet, open a command prompt and type
ipconfig /all ENTER. Write down the IP address of the DNS server listed on
your Internet connection. On the client machine go to Network and Dialup
connections/Network connections, double click on the Local Area Connection
and click Properties. Highlight TCP/IP and click the properties button.
Click Use the following IP address and Use the following DNS server address
and enter the following information:

                    IP address = 192.168.0.2
                    Subnet mask = 255.255.255.0
                    Gateway = 192.168.0.1

                    DNS server = IP address you wrote down previously

Reboot - if this doesn't work, change the setting back to obtain address and
DNS automatically.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"William" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:035c01c47a9a$2bc48c30$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I'm looking for some help.
> I have a home network of which is having issues with
> the shared internet connection. It stopped working about
> 4 weeks ago. A nice gentleman in this community pointed
> me in the correct direction, yet now I am looking for a
> fix. I have a host computer and 2 client computers.
> The client can ping 66.94.231.98 (yahoo)
> successfully.The client can not ping http://www.yahoo.com
> sucessfully until I force the host computer to ping
> http://www.yahoo.com. Once I force the host to ping the
> name, the client works great!.
> When a new dial up connection is established on the
> host, the above pinging proceedure must be repeated for
> the shared connection to work.
> One more thing, the host is running XP Home upgraded
> from Win98. The client is XP home.
> I still have much to learn about networks, But I
> believe the DNS to be the cause?
> Can anyone out there give me direction to a solution.
>
> Appreciate the time,
> William
>