Any way to uninstall/remove damage done by ICS?

K

Ken Snyder

Scenario:
Linksys router connected to DSL modem. Home wired w/ CAT
5 going to router. Was not using ICS. 4 to 5 (wired)
PC's working w/ no problem at the same time. Attempted to
use laptop (wireless) to print to shared printer (on wired
PC). Didn't work, so went through network wizard on wired
PC - which appears to have installed ICS.

After this, the wired PC no longer connects to the 'Net,
and I can't get an IP address assigned from the router
within an appropriate range (192.168.1.1XX, etc). Other
PC's in the house still work fine. Foolishly, I did the
same thing on the laptop and now that doesn't work either
and has similar problems. I've tried dial-up and even
eliminating the router and connecting directly through the
DSL modem to no avail.

Is there a way to reverse what I've done and get things
back to the way they used to be without re-installing XP?
KBase files seem to indicate that once you run the network
wizard and ICS is activated, there's no going back. How
on earth can this possibly be?
 
G

Guest

Hope this helps. Do the reverse of
Open Network Connections.
Click the dial-up, local area network, PPPoE, or VPN connection you want to share, and then, under Network Tasks, click Change settings of this connection.
On the Advanced tab, select the Allow other network users to connect through this computer's Internet connection check box.
If you want this connection to dial automatically when another computer on your home or small office network attempts to access external resources, select the Establish a dial-up connection whenever a computer on my network attempts to access the Internet check box.
If you want other network users to enable or disable the shared Internet connection, select the Allow other network users to control or disable the shared Internet connection check box.
Under Internet Connection Sharing, in Home networking connection, select any adapter that connects the computer sharing its Internet connection to the other computers on your network.
 
K

Ken Snyder

Thanks Mike - this solution leads me to believe that I'll
need to leave one PC on all the time so that it can share
a connection. My configuration over the last 2 years did
not have this requirement as the router would establish
the PPPoE connection to my ISP and would also manage DHCP
IP address allocation. In other words, there was never a
single PC which "shared" it's connection.

It still works that way with the PC's that I did not
attempt to run the network configuration wizard (ICS) on.
I suspect that I really need to somehow fully remove ICS
and start from scratch.

Cheers,
Ken
-----Original Message-----
Hope this helps. Do the reverse of:
Open Network Connections.
Click the dial-up, local area network, PPPoE, or VPN
connection you want to share, and then, under Network
Tasks, click Change settings of this connection.
On the Advanced tab, select the Allow other network users
to connect through this computer's Internet connection
check box.
If you want this connection to dial automatically when
another computer on your home or small office network
attempts to access external resources, select the
Establish a dial-up connection whenever a computer on my
network attempts to access the Internet check box.
If you want other network users to enable or disable the
shared Internet connection, select the Allow other network
users to control or disable the shared Internet connection
check box.
Under Internet Connection Sharing, in Home networking
connection, select any adapter that connects the computer
sharing its Internet connection to the other computers on
your network.
 
E

Ed

had a similar problem and found nothing particularly
useful on any kb's, etc. luckly xp automatically made a
restore point which i was able to restore from on the same
date that i made the change. wish there'd been a sugg to
that affect on the ms site.

give the restore a try. it worked for me
 
G

Guest

You should be able to restore to an earlier point prior
to ICS being installed (System Restore under System
Tools). You may have the problem described in Microsoft
Knowledge Base Article - 822596.
 
S

Steve Winograd [MVP]

"Ken Snyder" said:
Scenario:
Linksys router connected to DSL modem. Home wired w/ CAT
5 going to router. Was not using ICS. 4 to 5 (wired)
PC's working w/ no problem at the same time. Attempted to
use laptop (wireless) to print to shared printer (on wired
PC). Didn't work, so went through network wizard on wired
PC - which appears to have installed ICS.

After this, the wired PC no longer connects to the 'Net,
and I can't get an IP address assigned from the router
within an appropriate range (192.168.1.1XX, etc). Other
PC's in the house still work fine. Foolishly, I did the
same thing on the laptop and now that doesn't work either
and has similar problems. I've tried dial-up and even
eliminating the router and connecting directly through the
DSL modem to no avail.

Is there a way to reverse what I've done and get things
back to the way they used to be without re-installing XP?
KBase files seem to indicate that once you run the network
wizard and ICS is activated, there's no going back. How
on earth can this possibly be?

Run the Network Setup Wizard on each computer. When it asks you to
select a connection method, select "This computer connects to the
Internet through another computer on my network or through a
residential gateway." If it says that your computer has multiple
connections, select "Let me choose the connections to my network", and
prevent it from creating a bridge by un-checking all but your local
area network connection.

--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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