What can cause ICS to go missing?...

[Guest]

ICS is mysteriously missing from an XP Home system. Under the 'Advanced' tab
of network connection properties (for dial-up link) the middle section of the
window, pretaining to ICS, is simply blank -- as if the ICS didn't exist(!).

I've re-installed (repaired) WinXP, de/re-installed Windows Components for
'Networking Services', and even tweaked a registry setting
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE|System|CurrentControlSet|Services|SharedAccess). I see a
few other newsgroup questions & KB articles addressing similar problems, but
havn't yet found info to address this specific case.

Can you help? Any suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[Ron Lowe]

ICS is mysteriously missing from an XP Home system. Under the 'Advanced'
tab
of network connection properties (for dial-up link) the middle section of
the
window, pretaining to ICS, is simply blank -- as if the ICS didn't
exist(!).

I've re-installed (repaired) WinXP, de/re-installed Windows Components for
'Networking Services', and even tweaked a registry setting
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE|System|CurrentControlSet|Services|SharedAccess). I
see a
few other newsgroup questions & KB articles addressing similar problems,
but
havn't yet found info to address this specific case.

Can you help? Any suggestions?

Thanks!

The ICS option only appears if certain requirements are met.

1) There must be 2 network connection of some sort or another present.

One is for the external Internet connection ( it could be a dial-up
connection, a LAN card, or a PPPoE virtual connection or whatever. ) This
is the connection which you will share.

The other will be for your Internal Network. This will normally be a LAN
card, but it could be firewire or something else.

2) The Internet connection must not be part of a Network Bridge. If it is,
you must remove the bridge.

If either of these tests fail, the option is not displayed.

 

[Guest]

The ICS option only appears if certain requirements are met.

1) There must be 2 network connection of some sort or another present.

One is for the external Internet connection ( it could be a dial-up
connection, a LAN card, or a PPPoE virtual connection or whatever. ) This
is the connection which you will share.

The other will be for your Internal Network. This will normally be a LAN
card, but it could be firewire or something else.

2) The Internet connection must not be part of a Network Bridge. If it is,
you must remove the bridge.

If either of these tests fail, the option is not displayed.

Ron,

Thanks. Both of the conditions are met. The PC has a modem & Ethernet NIC.
It's possible that the Ethernet link wasn't active (IE - cable unplugged,
and/or perhaps in 'disabled' state) when I was working on it (the system is
not at-hand at the moment, else I'd check). Would this disqualify condition
#1, and make ICS stay hidden?

Thanks Again!
Pete

 

[Ron Lowe]

Ron,

Thanks. Both of the conditions are met. The PC has a modem & Ethernet
NIC.
It's possible that the Ethernet link wasn't active (IE - cable unplugged,
and/or perhaps in 'disabled' state) when I was working on it (the system
is
not at-hand at the moment, else I'd check). Would this disqualify
condition
#1, and make ICS stay hidden?

Thanks Again!
Pete

Quick test here on my dual-NIC machine, on which I only use 1 NIC...

With the second NIC enabled but unplugged - ICS option available.
With the second NIC disabled - ICS not available.

So yes, 'disabled' would fail condition #1.

 

[Guest]

Ron,

Thanks. I appreciate you taking the effort to test it & post. You're help
will make life a little bit better for a couple of folks!

Pete