XP Internet Sharing - method

[Geoff Lane]

I'm having a spot of bother with XP's Easy to set up Internet Sharing.

To date I've had 4 machines sharing via a Linux machine and NAT
routing.

Owing to an extension being built I am having to rearrange things and
want my daughter's laptop with XP Home to be able to serve for my
handheld running pocketpc2003.

Clicked on the XP's dial up setting and selected the option to allow
other users to share this internet connection but the handheld keeps
saying 'page not found' on Internet Explorer.

What method is it that XP uses - is it NAT or similar, do I have to
set up a Proxy Server on my other computers?

Geoff Lane

 

[ivan]

As far as I know XP uses NAT. You can set up manually. The
sharing (server) computer has to have an IP address of
192.168.0.1 and netmask of 255.255.255.0 The computer
needing access should have IP address of 192.168.0.2 and
subnet mask 255.255.255.0 AND default gateway set to
192.168.0.1 AND DNS server address supplied by your isp.
Ivan

 

[ivan]

The reason Microsoft chose those specific addresses I
cannot say. It is worth a try to change your server to
192.168.0.1 I think XP looks for that specific address.
You are right about the gateway, remember the internet
out there and your home network doesn't share the same
address range. If one of the machines on the home network
cannot resolve an address on the local(home) network it
will send the resolution request through the default
gateway to your ISP Domain Name Server.

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[Rob Schneider]

I'm having a spot of bother with XP's Easy to set up Internet Sharing.

To date I've had 4 machines sharing via a Linux machine and NAT
routing.

Owing to an extension being built I am having to rearrange things and
want my daughter's laptop with XP Home to be able to serve for my
handheld running pocketpc2003.

Clicked on the XP's dial up setting and selected the option to allow
other users to share this internet connection but the handheld keeps
saying 'page not found' on Internet Explorer.

What method is it that XP uses - is it NAT or similar, do I have to
set up a Proxy Server on my other computers?

Geoff Lane

Geoff,

I've never hooked up a pocketpc to a laptop ... but seems to me that
your gateway to the internet remains unchanged (the Linux box)? Or is
the XP laptop dialing out for Internet or using the Linux box as it's
gateway? Further, the symptom of the problem is that it doesn't have
DNS available to it. Can't you point your pocketpc to the same DNS as
your laptop uses (Linux box? or ISP's)? Before the change, where did
you connect this pocketpc to?

 

[Geoff Lane]

I've never hooked up a pocketpc to a laptop ... but seems to me that
your gateway to the internet remains unchanged (the Linux box)? Or is
the XP laptop dialing out for Internet or using the Linux box as it's
gateway? Further, the symptom of the problem is that it doesn't have
DNS available to it. Can't you point your pocketpc to the same DNS as
your laptop uses (Linux box? or ISP's)? Before the change, where did
you connect this pocketpc to?

I kept the same static IP addresses on my 'connecting' computer
whether it had booted with Linux or Windows but as it indows98
Internet Sharing didn't work when booted with win98 unless I had a
Proxy Server.

File sharing worked fine whichever I connected with.

With my present set up the network is fine as I can file share and
ping each machine - it is just Internet Sharing I cannot get working.

Re your mention about DNS, I've manually entered the DNS of my ISP.

Geoff Lane