Re: How to ICS WinXP-SP2? This should be simple! !ALMOST SOLVED!
- From: "Steve Winograd [MVP]" <bcmaven@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 18:23:25 -0600
In article <bn1p72p950n1cvsaulpbqgiteiasduk3ih@xxxxxxx>, Ribs
<Whiteboi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Your setup should work fine. ICS can use a USB connection for the
Internet and a FireWire connection for the home network. I've just
set it up that way on my network, and I'm sending this message from
the client computer.
Make sure that the host is using the FireWire connection, not the LAN
connection, for the home network.
These tests should help find the problem:
1. On the host, right click the FireWire connection and click Status |
Support | Details. It should show:
IP Address: 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: none
DNS Server = none
2. On the client, right click the FireWire connection and click Status
| Support | Details. It should show:
IP Address: 192.168.0.x (1<x<255)
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.0.1
DNS Server = 192.168.0.1
3. If #1 and #2 are right, open a command prompt window on the client
and enter these lines. Each one should get four replies:
ping 192.168.0.1
ping 216.239.39.99
ping google.com
4. If #1-#3 are right, enter these addresses in Internet Explorer on
the client. They should both take you to the Google web page:
http://216.239.39.99
http://google.com
Steve,
Thank you! This is where I was before, it's what's in the ICS set-up
instructions everywhere. However, you have presented some diagnostics
that should help. Because of your networking background, I think the
complete solution should be trivial for you.
First, this all worked fine from the client, including pinging Google
at 216.239.39.99 and opening their page via http://216.239.39.99.
To reach other sites, I used my host to ping other web and news sites,
and get their IP addresses. Then I went to my client and entered
these in manually. Everything worked!
But trying to access 'Net addresses from my client via the names,
i.e., google.com or news.comcast.net, no names are resolved into
addresses. It appears my host PC is not working as a DNS properly.
My next step was to find the addresses of the primary and secondary
DNS's on my client. Using "Status | Support | Details..." I found
both addresses. Everything works perfect now!
Now, a further question, hopefully a perfect solution. I think it
will cause trouble in the future that I needed to manually enter my
"Preferred" and "Alternate" DNS servers in manually on my client. I
know that occasionally, my ISP changes these.
Isn't there a way to get my client to find the host's DNS addresses
automatically?
Maybe the settings on my client need to be adjusted, so it seeks the
current DNS servers from my host.
Thanks so far!
You're welcome, Ribs. Setting the client's DNS server address to the
default of 192.168.0.1 should work, but I've seen cases where it
doesn't. You've found the right solution for that: configuring the
client to use your ISP's DNS servers. If your ISP changes them in the
future, you'll know it, because the host will be able to access web
sites by name, and the client won't be able to. If that happens, you
know how to fix it.
I don't know of any way to have the client automatically get the
current DNS servers from the host.
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)
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