XP Home Internet Connection Sharing via crossover cable.

[GPO]

I have two PCs. Host is XP Home (with dial up modem and network connection
IP address 192.168.0.1) and client is XP professional (connected to host via
network card, IP 192.168.0.2). I can share files no problem so the network
works. In "Network Connections" on the client it even has a category called
Internet Gateway that tells me the, yes indeedy, the host really is
connected to the net.
But do you think the rotten sunnuvvabitch host PC will let the client browse
any web pages? Hmm? every time I try I get "The page cannot be displayed."
Strangely enough it normally works fine.

FWIW I have PC-Cillin 2002 on the host and have gone as far as disabling the
"personal firewall". Makes no difference. What else can I do?

 

[Chuck]

I have two PCs. Host is XP Home (with dial up modem and network connection
IP address 192.168.0.1) and client is XP professional (connected to host via
network card, IP 192.168.0.2). I can share files no problem so the network
works. In "Network Connections" on the client it even has a category called
Internet Gateway that tells me the, yes indeedy, the host really is
connected to the net.
But do you think the rotten sunnuvvabitch host PC will let the client browse
any web pages? Hmm? every time I try I get "The page cannot be displayed."
Strangely enough it normally works fine.

FWIW I have PC-Cillin 2002 on the host and have gone as far as disabling the
"personal firewall". Makes no difference. What else can I do?

Is the client using DHCP for its configuration settings? Does it pick
up 192.168.0.1 for its default gateway?

Post ipconfig output for both computers, please. Start - Run -
"ipconfig /all >c:\ipconfig.txt" - Open c:\ipconfig.txt in Notepad -
Copy and paste here.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.