"Terry" said:
I have a laptop and PC networked. The PC has an external
cable modem connected via a PCI ethernet card, and is
connected to the network through an ethernet connection
on the motherboard. Although I can share files, printers
etc between machines the internet is not accessible from
the laptop. Internet sharing is enabled on the PC. CAn
anyone help?
Make sure that you've enabled ICS on the right network connection on
the host.
If that's OK, here are some tests that should help find the problem:
1. On the ICS host computer, right click the local area network
connection and click Status | Support | Details. It should show:
IP Address: 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: none
DNS Server = none
2. On the ICS client computer, right click the local area network
connection and click Status | Support | Details. It should show:
IP Address: 192.168.0.x (1<x<255)
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.0.1
DNS Server = 192.168.0.1
3. If #1 and #2 are right, open a command prompt window on the client
and enter these lines. Each one should get four replies:
ping 192.168.0.1
ping 216.239.39.100
ping
www.google.com
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