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RichK
I am trying to get my daughters win2k to share an internet commection over a
wireless LAN so she can connect a ReplayTV box. Her machine has another NIC
so I thought it should be simple. I decided to first connect another win2k
machine (a laptop), before I started to screw around with the ReplayTV,
which is a black box to me. Both her machine and the laptop are running
win2k pro SP4. Her wireless card is a Linksys WMP11. I connected the
computers via a hub and the machines could see each other's shared
resources. I turned on sharing on the wireless LAN card, and I confirmed
the other adapter (the one connected to the hub) was assigned IP address
192.168.0.1. I set the laptop to get IP address & DNS from a DHCP server.
I tried to renew the IP address on the laptop, but none was assigned.
I then set the laptop's NIC to use fixed IP address 192.166.0.66 with subnet
mask 255.255.255.0 and to use 192.168.0.1 as the default gateway and as the
DNS address. With that configuration, I was able to ping each computer from
the other, but no internet access. From the laptop, I tried to ping a known
IP address on the internet - no response. The only thing I can guess is
that either there is something that stops the Linksys connection from being
shared, or that there is some sort of firewall software running on her
machine that interferes, but I would have thought that would have blocked me
from seeing the shared resources. She certainly has a lot of crap running
on her machine (much of which was installed by an ex-boyfriend), but she
claims there is no firewall.
wireless LAN so she can connect a ReplayTV box. Her machine has another NIC
so I thought it should be simple. I decided to first connect another win2k
machine (a laptop), before I started to screw around with the ReplayTV,
which is a black box to me. Both her machine and the laptop are running
win2k pro SP4. Her wireless card is a Linksys WMP11. I connected the
computers via a hub and the machines could see each other's shared
resources. I turned on sharing on the wireless LAN card, and I confirmed
the other adapter (the one connected to the hub) was assigned IP address
192.168.0.1. I set the laptop to get IP address & DNS from a DHCP server.
I tried to renew the IP address on the laptop, but none was assigned.
I then set the laptop's NIC to use fixed IP address 192.166.0.66 with subnet
mask 255.255.255.0 and to use 192.168.0.1 as the default gateway and as the
DNS address. With that configuration, I was able to ping each computer from
the other, but no internet access. From the laptop, I tried to ping a known
IP address on the internet - no response. The only thing I can guess is
that either there is something that stops the Linksys connection from being
shared, or that there is some sort of firewall software running on her
machine that interferes, but I would have thought that would have blocked me
from seeing the shared resources. She certainly has a lot of crap running
on her machine (much of which was installed by an ex-boyfriend), but she
claims there is no firewall.