Browsing an ICS workgroup.

[DanaK]

I've got a small three workstation workgroup up and
running with one workstation running ICS and the other two
accessing the broadband connection just fine. I'm having
a problem, however, finding a way for one of the internal
workstations to access a shared printer on one of the
others. The workstation will share the printer attached
to it, no problem, but none of the workstations will
actually browse and "see" any of the others. I've tried
installing the component under Services in the Network
Properties window which advertise shared components but
this didn't help. Neither did it help when I went back
through the Network Setup Wizard that re-ran to add File
and Print sharing when I shared the printer itself.

The printer is indicated as being shared but none of the
other workstations can see anything on any of the others.
In fact, I get a time out messages that states I may not
have the necessary rights to view the network and I'm in
an administrative profile.

Does ICS so thoroughly shut down browing that sharing is
impossible?

Thanks,
Dana

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I've got a small three workstation workgroup up and
running with one workstation running ICS and the other two
accessing the broadband connection just fine. I'm having
a problem, however, finding a way for one of the internal
workstations to access a shared printer on one of the
others. The workstation will share the printer attached
to it, no problem, but none of the workstations will
actually browse and "see" any of the others. I've tried
installing the component under Services in the Network
Properties window which advertise shared components but
this didn't help. Neither did it help when I went back
through the Network Setup Wizard that re-ran to add File
and Print sharing when I shared the printer itself.

The printer is indicated as being shared but none of the
other workstations can see anything on any of the others.
In fact, I get a time out messages that states I may not
have the necessary rights to view the network and I'm in
an administrative profile.

Does ICS so thoroughly shut down browing that sharing is
impossible?

Dana,

no, ICS actually doesn't have to do much with sharing.

Please have a look at http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm.

Hans-Georg

 

[DanaK]

Thanks for your quick answer.

After browsing the site you referenced (it's in my
Favorites section now) and seeing one article in
particular it suddenly hit me that I'd also installed
Norton Internet Security on these three workstations.
Previous experience with this software package tells me
that this is probably what is blocking intranet browsing
as it took me quite a while to pick and choose between the
protocols blocked by default in NIS on another peer-to-
peer network before I could browse and do a host of other
things on it.

The startup of school in the Fall always turns my mind to
mush.

Thanks,
Dana

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Thanks for your quick answer.

After browsing the site you referenced (it's in my
Favorites section now) and seeing one article in
particular it suddenly hit me that I'd also installed
Norton Internet Security on these three workstations.
Previous experience with this software package tells me
that this is probably what is blocking intranet browsing
as it took me quite a while to pick and choose between the
protocols blocked by default in NIS on another peer-to-
peer network before I could browse and do a host of other
things on it.

Dana,

unless you keep having dangerous guest computers in your LAN,
your own computers don't need any high-powered firewalls. The
place where you need a good firewall is only the one connection
that connects you to the Internet, i.e. the outgoing connection
from your ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) server.

Hans-Georg