>-----Original Message-----
>I need some serious help.
>I cant get my small office/home networking setup wizard
>to start. I worked fine before cause I did setup a
>network with my 2 laptops and they had been able to
>connect to each other AND share my internet connections
>from my desktop. Now they can still see each other
>directly but cant see the internet connection from my
>desktop. I believe i just need to do a setup again BUT
>my setup wont even open on my desktop. The setup on my
>laptops work fine. I even tried to use the setup from
>the XP CD itself but it still wont open. If you could
>give me some ideas I would be greatly appreciative.
>
>David A. Smith
>Lexington, Ky
>.
>David,
I am having a somewhat similar problem with ICS running
on a winXP Home edition. My network consists of a winXP
hoste connected to the internet via DirecWay and (2)
win2000 professional laptops connected to the hoste thru
a linksys 5 port switch. This arrangement worked great
for many months and recently broke. I replaced the NIC
cards and the switch with no success. Each time I
replaced something I reran the ICS home network wizard
which works strange. When I rerun it the first time,
filling in the workgroup name because it defaults
to "mshome" it doesn't accept the custom workgroup name
and fails to complete. I then reboot the hoste PC and
run it again and it takes the name ok. I have had to do
this several times now and it is repeatable. Very
recently I was in the middle of a download from the
internet and I suddenly lost connectivity for no apparent
reason. I had to go through this 2 step network wizard
exercise to restore the connectivity. I do not
understand what causes the loss in connectivity each time
but I have come to learn how to fix it. I am wondering
if there is some kind of dll conflict between ICS
services and something else that gets reset when you
rerun the network wizard twice.
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