ICS

[Chris]

HAVING PROBLEMS SHARING A CONNECTION WITH ONE OF MY
COMPUTERS. I have 2 computers networked, they see each
other fine, when i dial on to aol i cant get the other
computer to see the connection so it can access the web.
The host is XP the other computer that cant see the
internet connection is 2000pro, What can i do ...... i
did setup network connection on xp and it configure my
network card to 192.168.0.1 so i put the other computer
to 192.168.0.2 and still nothing i also put in the
gateway for 2000pro 192.168.0.1 and also tried the ip of
AOL as the gateway. AOL CONNECTION IS SHARED..... i
checked

 

[Herb Martin]

HAVING PROBLEMS SHARING A CONNECTION WITH ONE OF MY
COMPUTERS. I have 2 computers networked, they see each
other fine, when i dial on to aol i cant get the other
computer to see the connection so it can access the web.
The host is XP the other computer that cant see the
internet connection is 2000pro, What can i do ...... i
did setup network connection on xp and it configure my
network card to 192.168.0.1 so i put the other computer
to 192.168.0.2 and still nothing i also put in the
gateway for 2000pro 192.168.0.1 and also tried the ip of
AOL as the gateway.

The latter is WRONG. Use autoconfigure or you MUST
configure the internal machine to use the 192.168.0.1 address
(internal side of the gateway that can help.)

AOL CONNECTION IS SHARED..... i checked

You didn't actually give us the error message but the most likely
cause from what you did give is that you didn't put in the correct
DNS server on one or both of these machines.

If you make the "internal client" a DHCP client (automatic configuration)
then it will get the address of the ICS machine (correct): 192.168.0.1
and the ICS machine will automatically configure it correctly.

You CAN do this yourself but there if very little reason to do so in the
simple case you describe.

Second, can the "ICS" machine access the "Internet"? It's DNS server
must be the one at the ISP usually. But generally this will be correctly
configured by THEIR DHCP server.