Windows XP Networking Problems - Solution

From: Sidney Walker (sidneywalker_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 02/02/05 

Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:21:50 -0500

Hi,

I am having trouble accessing the Internet from the client computer on my

home network. The computer (host) that is accessing the internet via a

dial-up connection is running Windows XP SP2. The client computer is

running Windows 98 second edition. I am having no problems sharing or

transferring files from the host to client or client to host. I am up to

date with all the updates to the Windows operating systems.

I have had the Internet Sharing Connection working before for the client,

but it along with file sharing/transferring files was always sporadic from

day one. Some days it worked, next day it would not work. I have disabled

the Windows XP firewall and the Norton firewall. That has accomplished

nothing. No problems with the browser (IE or Firefox) on the host computer.

I have made the suggested changes to IE on the client of making sure the LAN

setting box to automatically detect settings is not checked on the client.

Firefox browser software is not on the client.

Recently I have been able to stabilize the file sharing/transferring

function by assigning the client computer's NIC TCP/IP setting a specific IP

address. I assigned it 192.168.0.2. The Windows XP SP2 computer's NIC

TCP/IP address is 192.168.0.1. I am able to ping both computer's addresses

with no problems from either computer.

As a last resort when none of the above changes worked I did the following

changes to the client. On the client computer NIC TCP/IP setting's tab I

entered a default gateway address of 192.168.0.1 and on the DNS tab I

assigned it a host name of NS.BELLSOUTH and a domain name of NET. Then I

entered two domain name servers. The DNS addresses I entered were

205.152.37.254 and 205.152.144.235. This didn't work either. I feel like I

have tried almost everything with no success.

For hardware I am using NETGEAR PA 301 PCI cards which work over my existing

home phone lines. They are working OK.

My ISP is Bell South.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Sidney

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