Is it to to drop ICS and Bridge instead ?

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I have a cable modem going into a Wireless Router with firewall (. Then I a
couple rj45 connected PCs on ther the router, a couple Wireless PCs using
the wireless router and all of these see the internet just fine.

One of the RJ45 (ethernet connected) PCs has a HomePhoneline Adapter
interface in it and this allows 2 computers to use it as an internet
gateway. Those 2 others and the Internet Connection Sharing PC all see each
otehr and share files and printers as desired. The others which connect
first to the router are unable to share.

I am beginning to thing the ICS sharign machine beleives it should share the
home phone line side but nothing more, even though the internet firewall is
turned off.

For PCs on the ethernet side to share files with PCs on the HPNA side, does
the XP system in the middle need to "bridge" these network intefaces?

Guidance and a reference would be very reassuring.

Thanks in advance
 
"Mark" said:
I have a cable modem going into a Wireless Router with firewall (. Then I a
couple rj45 connected PCs on ther the router, a couple Wireless PCs using
the wireless router and all of these see the internet just fine.

One of the RJ45 (ethernet connected) PCs has a HomePhoneline Adapter
interface in it and this allows 2 computers to use it as an internet
gateway. Those 2 others and the Internet Connection Sharing PC all see each
otehr and share files and printers as desired. The others which connect
first to the router are unable to share.

I am beginning to thing the ICS sharign machine beleives it should share the
home phone line side but nothing more, even though the internet firewall is
turned off.

For PCs on the ethernet side to share files with PCs on the HPNA side, does
the XP system in the middle need to "bridge" these network intefaces?

Guidance and a reference would be very reassuring.

Thanks in advance
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Your analysis is right. Disable ICS, and then bridge the Ethernet and
HPNA adapters. That will combine the Ethernet and HPNA networks into
one logical network, and all of the computers will be able to share
resources with each other. I've written a web page with details:

XP ICS - Network Bridge
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_ics/networkbridge.htm
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