Sharing Problem in XP media Center

[Himanshu]

Hi, I facing the sharing problem for the last weak. In
my home there are three PCs connected to each other via HUB. In my
server there are two partitions namely C & D. Recently I installed
winXP media center on my C drive. I have two lan cards, one for local
lan & other for static IP given by my ISP. I am using 192.168.0.1, 0.2
& 0.3 (private IP)in all the three pcs. All the PCs are able to ping
each other, even as yahoo IP, but whenever I tried to open any website
in address bar I get the messege that "page cann't be dispalyed" in
remaining two pcs except my server. When I typed the yahoo IP in
address bar It opened on my client machine.
So being disappointed I installed windows server 2003 on my D
partition, When I boot my PC in 2003 server Internet started working in

all the pcs, but not in media center.
Please solve my problem.
Reagrds,
Himanshu

 

[Chuck]

Hi, I facing the sharing problem for the last weak. In
my home there are three PCs connected to each other via HUB. In my
server there are two partitions namely C & D. Recently I installed
winXP media center on my C drive. I have two lan cards, one for local
lan & other for static IP given by my ISP. I am using 192.168.0.1, 0.2
& 0.3 (private IP)in all the three pcs. All the PCs are able to ping
each other, even as yahoo IP, but whenever I tried to open any website
in address bar I get the messege that "page cann't be dispalyed" in
remaining two pcs except my server. When I typed the yahoo IP in
address bar It opened on my client machine.
So being disappointed I installed windows server 2003 on my D
partition, When I boot my PC in 2003 server Internet started working in

all the pcs, but not in media center.
Please solve my problem.
Reagrds,
Himanshu

Himanshu,

It sounds like you have a difference in configuration between the Server 2003
and Media Center personalities of your server. When you setup the network on
each, did you select the ICS Host configuration both times?
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/using-network-setup-wizard-in-windows.html#ICSHost>

The easiest way to solve your problem, and improve your future, would be to use
a NAT router.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/ics-is-ok-but-you-can-do-better.html>

If no help yet, provide "ipconfig /all" for the two personalities of your
server, and for the other two computers.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-internet-service.html#AskingForHelp>

And Himanshu, posting your email address openly will get you more unwanted
email, than wanted email. Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep
yourself a bit safer when posting to open forums. Protect yourself and the rest
of the internet - read this article.
http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm

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