Network Setup

[Guest]

Peer to peer. All computers are XP Pro. 1 dial-up connection at one computer.
I ran the network setup wizard at the dial-up machine that will be the
Internet connection for all computers. I took the disk the network setup
wizard created and ran it on the other machines. None of them will connect to
the Internet. I tried doing it manually by giving everyone a static IP and
setting the gateway to 192.168.0.1 which is the Internet computer. The only
machine that connects to the Internet is the one with the dial-up. I can ping
from and to every computer. Am I missing a manual setting at the networked
computers?

 

[Gordon]

Mike wrote:
|| Peer to peer. All computers are XP Pro. 1 dial-up connection at one
|| computer. I ran the network setup wizard at the dial-up machine that
|| will be the Internet connection for all computers. I took the disk
|| the network setup wizard created and ran it on the other machines.
|| None of them will connect to the Internet. I tried doing it manually
|| by giving everyone a static IP and setting the gateway to
|| 192.168.0.1 which is the Internet computer. The only machine that
|| connects to the Internet is the one with the dial-up. I can ping
|| from and to every computer. Am I missing a manual setting at the
|| networked computers?

Assuming your computers are connected by a hub, a) when you ran the network
setup wizard in the machine with the Internet connection did you choose the
option "this computer connects directly to the internet and other computers
connect through it" and b) (there's no need to use the network setup disk on
the others - just run the network wizard) did you choose the option: "this
computer connects via a gateway" not sure of the EXACT wording as I use a
router and hub for internet access, but you get the picture? That should set
it up automatically for you - I've never had any trouble doing it that way.

 

[Guest]

Hi Gordon,

I set it up exactly that way. One thing I noticed is it did not give the
Internet machine ethernet card a static IP. Seems like when I did this in the
past it gave the Internet nic a 192.168.0.1 IP. I got this thing running by
going to the modem in Network Places and right clicking selecting Properties.
Under advanced I checked "allow computers accessing the Internet through this
computer to dial-up, or something like that. Everything came online when I
did that. I suspect problems in the future though. It does not seem stable.
Shouldn't I be able to give everyone a static IP and set the gateway on the
clients to the static on the dial-up and get this to work?