Dial-Up Connection Sharing Conflict

[Zach Backes]

I recieved this message while trying to share a modem
dial-up connection over a peer-to-peer network with
machines running Windows 2000: Error 783. I have a
Windows 2000 Pro machine that is running as a files
server, I have two other Windows 2000 Pro workstations, I
have a Toshiba laptop running Windows XP Pro, and a
desktop running Windows 98 which I absolutely hate. All
of the connections are done with wireless cards. All of
them have a reliable connection over the network so that
is not my problem. All of the computers cann access one
another without any problem. I have a dial-up connection
setup on my server that dials into CU-Boulder that works
just fine. I tried to share that connection over my LAN1
(the only network I have) and it gave me this error
saying that the network is not available to share the
dial-up connection to. I have also tried to share the
dial-up connection while conneced to CU-Boulder with the
dial-up connection and that makes no difference. It
always gives me this error. Why? Can someone help me
please.

 

[Rakesh Chanana [MSFT]]

When you enable Internet Connection Sharing (on the dial-up connection), the
local area connection's IP address is changed to 192.168.0.1 and it's not
configurable. Chances are that the another device on your local wireless
network (possibly the Wireless AP) is using that address, hence the error.
You best option would be to reconfigure the IP scheme on you local LAN to
something other than 192.168.0.x - may be 192.168.10.x or something like
that. Once you change that on the Wireless AP, do ipconfig /release and
ipconfig /renew on the client machines to get a new address.

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