Need to Disable Ineternet Connection sharing - Please Help!

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I have windows XP Home on my Dell. I have a DSL internet connection. I am desperately trying to install my company's VPN software so I can check email over Christmas. They say I need to disable ICS to make the VPN work. I have folllowed everyone's instructions, but where I"m told I"ll find the place to do it, which is on the Advanced tab under Network Connection Properties, underneath where you enable/disable ICF, I have dead air, not a spot to do the ICS thing. Is this a shortcoming of XP Home? I have searched everything I can find, and it's all about enabling the carn thing, not DISabling it. I am not currently running a network at home though I probably should. Thank you in advance for your help on how to disable ICS so I can install this Cisco VPN stuff... and save my sanity over the holidays! Mama Al
 
Mama Al,

ICS will be available to enable if you have two network devices installed on
your system i.e. cable modem connecting to your computer and another network
card hooked up to a hub that your other computers connect to. To disable
ICS, you would need to look at the properties to the cable modem
connection-- if you looked at the internal network card's properties, ICS
would not be there.

I would suggest viewing the properties for any other network connections
available on your system. If you only have one, and the option to
enable/disable ICS is not there, then you do not have it enabled and
therefore cannot disable it.

How to Enable Internet Connection Sharing on a Home or Small Office Network
Connection in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314066

--
Matt Coy, MCSE

Mama Al said:
I have windows XP Home on my Dell. I have a DSL internet connection. I
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am desperately trying to install my company's VPN software so I can check
email over Christmas. They say I need to disable ICS to make the VPN work.
I have folllowed everyone's instructions, but where I"m told I"ll find the
place to do it, which is on the Advanced tab under Network Connection
Properties, underneath where you enable/disable ICF, I have dead air, not a
spot to do the ICS thing. Is this a shortcoming of XP Home? I have
searched everything I can find, and it's all about enabling the carn thing,
not DISabling it. I am not currently running a network at home though I
probably should. Thank you in advance for your help on how to disable ICS
so I can install this Cisco VPN stuff... and save my sanity over the
holidays! Mama Al
 
Thanks for your response, Matt -

Your response makes sense. The cable modem is the only network that I have, and that's the "properties tab" to which I was referring in my initial post. So do I then have a Cisco VPN problem? It is when I try to install the VPN software that it aborts the install and tells me I can't install until I disable ICS. I"m about ready to unhook my PC and take it to the office and have them figure it out. That's what they get for not giving me a laptop :) Thanks again, Mama Al
 
Yep, sounds like the VPN software is incorrectly detecting ICS. I would
take your computer in and have them get it to work... and you could drop
some hints about a laptop when you're in there ;)

--
Matt Coy, MCSE

Mama Al said:
Thanks for your response, Matt -

Your response makes sense. The cable modem is the only network that I
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have, and that's the "properties tab" to which I was referring in my initial
post. So do I then have a Cisco VPN problem? It is when I try to install
the VPN software that it aborts the install and tells me I can't install
until I disable ICS. I"m about ready to unhook my PC and take it to the
office and have them figure it out. That's what they get for not giving me
a laptop :) Thanks again, Mama Al
 
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