Re: RPC service unavailable


Just so someone may benefit from my 3 hours of work:

I just had this problem too and searched internet, WinXP help, etc.
Tried all the other stuff: properties on the connections, add/remove
all kinds of stuff, to no avail.

I recently had made some changes to my dialup software and probably
touched some other settings unawares and suddenly the ability to share
my internet connection on my LAN went bye-bye. When I try to reactivate
it, I get a warning that ICS will change my LAN address to 192.168.0.1
and if I say yes to that, it then gives me the "Error 1722: The RPC
server is unavailable" and won't share the internet connection.

BTW: I have WinXP Pro, one dialup connection for internet, one LAN
connection with IP in the 192.168 range static, windows firewall active
on the dialup but not the LAN. ICS was active until problem started.

Here's how I fixed it after the 3 hours of wheel-spinning:

Went into windows firewall settings and restored the windows default
(can't remember exactly where the button is, but its there somewhere).
Rebooted, then tried to activate ICS on the dialup connection. Hey, it
let me do it! Only now it has my LAN IP set to 192.168.0.1. So, then
change my LAN IP back to what it should be, disable the windows
firewall on the LAN connection, and everything is back to normal.



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