Networking or Interenet, but not both

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In my home situation I have several computers, in different locations and
assigned to various tasks, comprising of Mac’s as well as PC’s. The Mac’s
run OS X and the PC’s, Windows 98 SE and one machine operates XP. I connect
directly to the Internet through the XP machine and connect to the Internet
through that with the other machines which are networked over an Ethernet
link up. I have assigned each machine its own IP address for networking, but
where the Mac’s are quite happy with this situation, I have to remove the IP
address on the Windows 98 machines before I can access the Internet through
the XP machine. Is it possible to configure the XP machine in such a way that
would negate the need to reconfigure the other machines each time I wanted to
change its orientation?
Thanks in anticipation
Geoff

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

In my home situation I have several computers, in different locations and
assigned to various tasks, comprising of Mac’s as well as PC’s. The Mac’s
run OS X and the PC’s, Windows 98 SE and one machine operates XP. I connect
directly to the Internet through the XP machine and connect to the Internet
through that with the other machines which are networked over an Ethernet
link up. I have assigned each machine its own IP address for networking, but
where the Mac’s are quite happy with this situation, I have to remove the IP
address on the Windows 98 machines before I can access the Internet through
the XP machine. Is it possible to configure the XP machine in such a way that
would negate the need to reconfigure the other machines each time I wanted to
change its orientation?
Thanks in anticipation
Geoff

If I understand correctly, you've enabled Internet Connection Sharing
on the XP machine. If so, here are two ways to set up TCP/IP on the
Windows 98 machines to allow Internet and LAN access:

1. Configure them to obtain their IP addresses automatically. The XP
machine runs a DHCP server that will make the assignments.

2. Make these settings manually:

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 or your ISP's DNS server

Note that the XP machine's DHCP server won't work if you've changed
that machine's LAN IP address from the default of 192.168.0.1. If
you've changed that address, modify the manual settings as needed.
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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