Windows XP and Windows ME Internet Connection Sharing -- Odd Problem

[Benjamin Barr]

Here are the details of my machines' configurations:

1) Host computer is a Win XP machine. It has a wireless
linksys adapter for internet access. Internet connection
sharing is enabled on this card. The Wireless card
connects to a Linkysys wireless router attached to a cable
modem. The Win XP machine also has a regular ethernet LAN
card.

2) I connect the host Win XP machine to the client with a
crossover cable.

3) The client machine is running Win ME and I have
installed the client side internet sharing with the disk
you create during the ICS setup process.

ISSUE: Here's what happens. After a fresh install/re-
install of the ICS, the client machine will be able to
share the Internet...for about 30 seconds and then it
fails. Thereafter, it keeps trying to look up addresses
and never gets the data sent to it. I --can-- see other
computers on the local network and I can access their
shared files, but I cannot get the internet to work unless
I uninstall the ICS and then re-install it...for it to
work for 30 seconds or so. Win ME machine only has TCP/IP
configured. Win XP machine has TCP/IP, NetBIOS, and
IPX/SPX enabled.

Here are more details concerning address assignments:

1. Win ME Machine's settings (client):

IP Address: 192.168.0.217
Subnet Address: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.0.1
DHCP Server: 192.168.0.1
Primary/Secondary WINS: blank
(It also shows a host name of integrity2.mshome.net which I thought the mshome.net
part was weird)


Also, My XP machine (Host) has these ipconfig stats:

WIRELESS CARD:

IP: 192.168.1.101
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1

Wire LAN Card (use crossover to connect to Win ME Machine)

IP: 192.168.0.1
subnet: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: Blank

At all times I am able to do file sharing with the XP
machine but internet access does not work. I can ping the
XP machine from the ME machine but cannot ping a normal
site, like yahoo.com, for instance.

Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated.

Thanks much,

Benjamin Barr
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

work for 30 seconds or so. Win ME machine only has TCP/IP
configured. Win XP machine has TCP/IP, NetBIOS, and
IPX/SPX enabled.

Benjamin,

please have a look at http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm. My
first guess would be that removing IPX would help.

What exactly do you mean by NetBIOS?

Hans-Georg