Internet connection sharing

[david james]

Setup Internet dial-up Connection Sharing on ComputerA
and now neither computer can access each other (could
before) and ComputerA was given a new IP address:
192.168.0.1

Can anyone tell me
1) Do I have to have ComuterA with IP address and change
the router and ComputerB to new IP addresses
2) Can I change ComputerA back to its original IP address
and will it work

Thanks

More details:

Two computers ComputerA and ComputerB - both runing
WindowsXP with wireless network cards and Linksys
Wireless G Router.

Before setting up Internet Connection Sharing:
Router IP address: 192.168.1.1 standard default
ComputerA IP address: 192.168.1.101
ComputerB IP address: 192.168.1.100

 

[Marc Reynolds [MSFT]]

ICS uses the 192.168.0.x network and this cannot be chnaged. Your ICS host
will automatically be set for 192.168.0.1 and your clients (which need to be
configured to get their IP setting automatically) will get addresses in the
192.168.0.x range, a default gateway of 192.168.0.1 and DNS server of
192.168.0.1.

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Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[david james]

Thank you for the reply

1) What do I configure the Linksys Wireless router to be
and what IP address does it use - does it need to see the
ICS computer as the gateway also?
2) The client must be reconifigured to see the ICS
computer as the new gateway?
3) Microsoft should present a warning dialog that it is
going to change the IP address and a link to how to
reconfigure the router and clients. I believe they would
do this if mentioned that a lot (check the posts in here)
of people have problems with this feature. I am a
Microsoft fan but this one doesn't follow the user
friendly computer experience that Microsoft helped pave
the way.



Thanks again for the help.