Re: Working LAN, but no client Internet

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In article <E6B840AC-B78B-44A2-8F7C-308F13506A5B@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Whitefort <Whitefort@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thank you, guys, my problem is (almost) solved.

This will probably sound so basic to you that you'll fall around laughing,
but... It occured to me that the client machine had previously been part of
another home network. For this network, I just clicked the default 'mshome'
name.

When I thought of this, I wondered if it was still stored somewhere, and XP
didn't like me trying to be in two networks with the same name. Anyway, I
changed the workgroup name on both computers. The internet icon immediately
appeared on the client PC.

I still couldn't connect, but I've now tracked this very definitely to
interference from ZoneAlarm. This will be easy to sort out, and isn't really
a topic for this group.

So many thanks, once again.

John Scott

You're welcome, John. Nice job of getting to this point.

Workgroup names have nothing to do with Internet access. It's a
coincidence that Internet access started working after you changed the
workgroup name. Rebooting the computers is probably what fixed it.

Which computer has ZoneAlarm? Running the free version of ZoneAlarm
on the main PC will almost certainly interfere with the other PC's
Internet access. The paid version of ZoneAlarm can work with Internet
sharing on the main PC.
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