WIN 2K to WIN XP ICS Internet Connection Sharing

[George J Meier]

Hi Bill,
Thanking you very much for your prompt reply.
I disabled the Norton personal firewall on both machines, but did not
uninstall them.
I also did not disable the antivirus.
The connection to the internet is a broadband, and the modem or adsl is
connected to the Win2K machine by the USB.
Does this make a difference.
Also on the XP Pro the TCP/IP address is not 192.168.0.x but quite
different.
When I try to run repair TCP/IP on the Lan connection of the XP client the
system cannot do it.
Rebooting the Win 2K machine does not change anything.
I remind you that the Lan network works fine for file access and print
access.
When you are in a pure XP Lan, ICS deposits an icon of the ICS in the
client, machine.
Am I to expect the same indication of the connection from a Win 2000 machine
?
Is it worthwhile to try to establish a Static ICS if the DHCP does not work
? Although the Lan works in other respect.?
Would you have any idea ?
Thanking you.
JOST

 

[rob]

Hi mate

It does not make any difference that the modem is
connected by usb.

if you have enabled ics on that machine just select
obtain ip address automatically on the other machines
tcp/ip properties and it should work fine

Rob

-----Original Message-----

Hi Bill,
Thanking you very much for your prompt reply.
I disabled the Norton personal firewall on both machines, but did not
uninstall them.
I also did not disable the antivirus.
The connection to the internet is a broadband, and the modem or adsl is
connected to the Win2K machine by the USB.
Does this make a difference.
Also on the XP Pro the TCP/IP address is not 192.168.0.x but quite
different.
When I try to run repair TCP/IP on the Lan connection of the XP client the
system cannot do it.
Rebooting the Win 2K machine does not change anything.
I remind you that the Lan network works fine for file access and print
access.
When you are in a pure XP Lan, ICS deposits an icon of the ICS in the
client, machine.
Am I to expect the same indication of the connection from a Win 2000 machine
?
Is it worthwhile to try to establish a Static ICS if the DHCP does not work
? Although the Lan works in other respect.?
Would you have any idea ?
Thanking you.
JOST

 

[George J Meier]

Thank you Rob,
In the meantime everything is working fine.
In desperation I downloaded a small programme Sybase Home Network.
I installed it, and when installed on the client machine it crashed very
badly.
I unistalled it, and behold, the connection was there with the right TCP/IP
address: 192.168.0.x.
It worked OK ever since, even Repair worked instantly.
What must have happened is that that Sybase programme must have configured
the host machine to deliver the right DHCP, and the rest followed.
Anyhow, thanking you very much to have bothered to reply to my posting.
Jost

Hi mate

It does not make any difference that the modem is
connected by usb.

if you have enabled ics on that machine just select
obtain ip address automatically on the other machines
tcp/ip properties and it should work fine

Rob

-----Original Message-----

Hi Bill,
Thanking you very much for your prompt reply.
I disabled the Norton personal firewall on both machines, but did not
uninstall them.
I also did not disable the antivirus.
The connection to the internet is a broadband, and the modem or adsl is
connected to the Win2K machine by the USB.
Does this make a difference.
Also on the XP Pro the TCP/IP address is not 192.168.0.x but quite
different.
When I try to run repair TCP/IP on the Lan connection of the XP client the
system cannot do it.
Rebooting the Win 2K machine does not change anything.
I remind you that the Lan network works fine for file access and print
access.
When you are in a pure XP Lan, ICS deposits an icon of the ICS in the
client, machine.
Am I to expect the same indication of the connection from a Win 2000 machine
?
Is it worthwhile to try to establish a Static ICS if the DHCP does not work
? Although the Lan works in other respect.?
Would you have any idea ?
Thanking you.
JOST