unable to share wired internet connection wirelessly via ad hocconnection

[yawnmoth]

I'm trying to connect to another computer via an ad-hoc wireless
network and am having a great deal of difficulty in succeeding.

In Wireless Network Connection Properties I click the "Wireless
Networks" tab. I click the "Advance" button, select "Computer-to-
computer (ad hoc) networks only" and uncheck "Automatically connect to
non-preferred networks". I click the "Close" button and then click
the "Add..." button. I provide a "Network name (SSID)" and set
"Network Authentication" to "Open" and "Data encryption" to
"Disabled". I do this per <http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/
networking/expert/bowman_02april08.mspx>, which states "Wireless
Equivalency Protocol (WEP) settings are not being configured at this
time because it's easier to get an ad hoc wireless network running
smoothly before attempting to configure WEP data encryption."

Anyway, I click OK twice and the screen closes. I then go to my other
computer - the client computer - and try to connect to the new ad-hoc
network. I can see it from the "Choose a wireless network" screen so
I double click on it. It connects and I can access the SMB shares of
the host computer.

I then go to the host computer, again, and click on the "Local Area
Connection" network (ie. the wired connection). I click on the
"Advanced" tab, check "Allow other network useres to connect through
this computer's Internet connection" and hit "OK". I go to the client
computer, try to go to google.com and can't.

I then uncheck "Allow other network users to connect through this
computer's Internet connection" on "Local Area Connection" and check
it on "Wireless Network Connection". I get the following message:

When Internet Connection Sharing is enabled, your LAN adapter will be set to use IP address 192.168.0.1. Your
computer may lose connectivity with other computers on your network. If these other computers have static IP
addresses, you should set them to obtain their IP addresses automatically. Are you sure you want to enable
Internet Connection Sharing?

Since the host computer is connected to the internet via "Local Area
Connection" - not via "Wireless Network Connection" - I figure it's
not an issue. If the "Wireless Network Connection" has an IP address
of 192.168.0.1 that's not a problem - the client computer can have an
IP address of 192.168.0.2 or something. So I click "Yes" and then
"OK". I disconnect the client and reconnect it and... nothing. Not
only can I still not load webpages - now I can't even access the the
host computer via SMB. In fact, when I do ipconfig, the output that I
get doesn't make any sense:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.130.200
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

That's not the same subnet as 192.168.0.1 so I guess the "Local Area
Connection" is the one I was supposed to share. Of course, when I
tried, it didn't work. And <http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/
networking/expert/bowman_02april08.mspx> is certainly useless in this
regard. It says "the connection to be shared". Which connection is
that? I want the host computer to "share" the "Local Area Connection"
with the "Wireless Network Connection" and I want the host computer to
"share" the "Wireless Network Connection" with the client. Saying
"the connection to be shared" is really quite ambiguous and quite
useless, too.

Long story short, I'm clueless. I think the instructions at <http://
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/bowman_02april08.mspx>
are useless and haven't a clue as to what I'm supposed to do.

Any ideas?

 

[Bernd]

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I'm trying to connect to another computer via an ad-hoc wireless
network and am having a great deal of difficulty in succeeding.

In Wireless Network Connection Properties I click the "Wireless
Networks" tab. I click the "Advance" button, select "Computer-to-
computer (ad hoc) networks only" and uncheck "Automatically connect to
non-preferred networks". I click the "Close" button and then click
the "Add..." button. I provide a "Network name (SSID)" and set
"Network Authentication" to "Open" and "Data encryption" to
"Disabled". I do this per <http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/
networking/expert/bowman_02april08.mspx>, which states "Wireless
Equivalency Protocol (WEP) settings are not being configured at this
time because it's easier to get an ad hoc wireless network running
smoothly before attempting to configure WEP data encryption."

Anyway, I click OK twice and the screen closes. I then go to my other
computer - the client computer - and try to connect to the new ad-hoc
network. I can see it from the "Choose a wireless network" screen so
I double click on it. It connects and I can access the SMB shares of
the host computer.

I then go to the host computer, again, and click on the "Local Area
Connection" network (ie. the wired connection). I click on the
"Advanced" tab, check "Allow other network useres to connect through
this computer's Internet connection" and hit "OK". I go to the client
computer, try to go to google.com and can't.

I then uncheck "Allow other network users to connect through this
computer's Internet connection" on "Local Area Connection" and check
it on "Wireless Network Connection". I get the following message:


Since the host computer is connected to the internet via "Local Area
Connection" - not via "Wireless Network Connection" - I figure it's
not an issue. If the "Wireless Network Connection" has an IP address
of 192.168.0.1 that's not a problem - the client computer can have an
IP address of 192.168.0.2 or something. So I click "Yes" and then
"OK". I disconnect the client and reconnect it and... nothing. Not
only can I still not load webpages - now I can't even access the the
host computer via SMB. In fact, when I do ipconfig, the output that I
get doesn't make any sense:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.130.200
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

That's not the same subnet as 192.168.0.1 so I guess the "Local Area
Connection" is the one I was supposed to share. Of course, when I
tried, it didn't work. And <http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/
networking/expert/bowman_02april08.mspx> is certainly useless in this
regard. It says "the connection to be shared". Which connection is
that? I want the host computer to "share" the "Local Area Connection"
with the "Wireless Network Connection" and I want the host computer to
"share" the "Wireless Network Connection" with the client. Saying
"the connection to be shared" is really quite ambiguous and quite
useless, too.

Long story short, I'm clueless. I think the instructions at <http://
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/bowman_02april08.mspx>
are useless and haven't a clue as to what I'm supposed to do.

Any ideas?

Obviously your client computer didn't get his IP-Adress from DHCP.

I cite from the mentioned instructions:

"""
Sharing the Connection

Now that a successful ad hoc wireless network has been created, we'll
set up Internet Connection Sharing.

1.


Open Network Connections on the host computer. (Click Start, click
Control Panel, click Switch to classic view, and then click Network
Connections.

2.


Click the connection to be shared, and under Network Tasks, click Change
settings of this connection.

3.


On the Advanced tab, select the Allow other network users to connect
through this computer's Internet connection check box.

"""
---> Have you done the last cited action ?

I cite again :

"""
After completing ICS configuration, the Network Connection window on the
host computer will display the original wired Ethernet connection and
display the status as Shared as well as Enabled. The Network Connection
window on the client computer will display the connection on the host as
an Internet Gateway.
"""
---> Do you see the Network Connect status on the client computer as
"Internet Gateway", as mentioned in the last cited sentence ?

---> Did you set "Obtain IP address automatically" and "Obtain DNS
server address automatically" on the TCP/IP-properties page of the
ad-hoc connection on the client computer ?

Bernd

 

[vlad lappo]

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Obviously your client computer didn't get his IP-Adress from DHCP.

I cite from the mentioned instructions:

"""
Sharing the Connection

Now that a successful ad hoc wireless network has been created, we'll
set up Internet Connection Sharing.

1.

Open Network Connections on the host computer. (Click Start, click
Control Panel, click Switch to classic view, and then click Network
Connections.

2.

Click the connection to be shared, and under Network Tasks, click Change
settings of this connection.

3.

On the Advanced tab, select the Allow other network users to connect
through this computer's Internet connection check box.

"""
---> Have you done the last cited action ?

I cite again :

"""
After completing ICS configuration, the Network Connection window on the
host computer will display the original wired Ethernet connection and
display the status as Shared as well as Enabled. The Network Connection
window on the client computer will display the connection on the host as
an Internet Gateway.
"""
---> Do you see the Network Connect status on the client computer as
"Internet Gateway", as mentioned in the last cited sentence ?

---> Did you set "Obtain IP address automatically" and "Obtain DNS
server address automatically" on the TCP/IP-properties page of the
ad-hoc connection on the client computer ?

Bernd

Man, excellent hints !!!
Helped me to set up ad hoc connection with Roger Cable internet

 

[Bernd]

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Man, excellent hints !!!
Helped me to set up ad hoc connection with Roger Cable internet

Thank you for feedback !

Bernd