Disabling ICS

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Hi. I've recently got my home network set up and working great. I've been able to swap files back and forth, and have shared my printer on both PCs running XP HE. I tried to get my dial-up Internet Connection shared through the network, and it worked fine the first night I tried it. Since my router doesn't have a phone line in it, it can't go through the router, so my primary/wired PC with the dial-up connection has the address of 192.168.0.1 in order to share the connection, the router is 192.168.0.42, and the wireless card is 192.168.0.101
We just recently upgraded to MSN 9 dial up, and I've had some problems getting it to work on the same PC with different user accounts under the same MSN account, but I eventually reinstalled it and got it to work
When I went to see if I could share the new connection, I could no longer see the MSN icon on the network after I told the wired PC to share it. All I can see on the wireless PC is a PC in a globe icon that says Internet connection. The status of it will say it's a 10/100 line connected to the internet, which is not true since we don't have DSL or cable. It always says that it is "enabled" (not "connected"), and I cannot disable this on either PC, even when I specify the wired PC to not share the connection. It will also appear on the wired PC after I tell it to not share the Internet Connection, and I cannot disable it on that side. Either way I try to disable it, it will say that it's currently busy with something and cannot be disabled at the time
All other aspects of the network work fine
How can I disable this? Is this what is preventing me from sharing my new connection?
 
Hi. I've recently got my home network set up and working great. I've been able to swap files back and forth, and have shared my printer on both PCs running XP HE. I tried to get my dial-up Internet Connection shared through the network, and it worked fine the first night I tried it. Since my router doesn't have a phone line in it, it can't go through the router, so my primary/wired PC with the dial-up connection has the address of 192.168.0.1 in order to share the connection, the router is 192.168.0.42, and the wireless card is 192.168.0.101.
We just recently upgraded to MSN 9 dial up, and I've had some problems getting it to work on the same PC with different user accounts under the same MSN account, but I eventually reinstalled it and got it to work.
When I went to see if I could share the new connection, I could no longer see the MSN icon on the network after I told the wired PC to share it. All I can see on the wireless PC is a PC in a globe icon that says Internet connection. The status of it will say it's a 10/100 line connected to the internet, which is not true since we don't have DSL or cable. It always says that it is "enabled" (not "connected"), and I cannot disable this on either PC, even when I specify the wired PC to not share the connection. It will also appear on the wired PC after I tell it to not share the Internet Connection, and I cannot disable it on that side. Either way I try to disable it, it will say that it's currently busy with something and cannot be disabled at the time.
All other aspects of the network work fine.
How can I disable this? Is this what is preventing me from sharing my new connection?
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Pinto,

Please provide some detail as to exactly what is connected to what.
Please describe the port connections on the router, and distinguish
between the WAN and LAN connections. Make and model of each network
device also.

Please provide ipconfig information for each computer. Start - Run -
"ipconfig /all >c:\ipconfig.txt" - Open c:\ipconfig.txt in Notepad,
copy and paste into your next post.

Is that your actual email address in From:? Learn to munge properly.
http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
 
PC 1: IP address 192.168.0.1. Wired to router, has phone line and MSN 9 Dial-Up. Is connected to home network workgroup. Says it's "sharing" MSN 9 connection
PC 2: IP address 192.168.0.101. Wireless card with D-Link DWL-520 card. Is connected to home network workgroup
Router: IP address 192.168.0.42. Wireless D-Link DI-514 router. Wired only to PC 1. No other wired ports used. No other PCs connected

Hope this helps. I'm not at my home right now, so I can't provide the ipconfig info as of now

Btw, about the email thing...I didn't do that. Newsgroup did that automatically for some reason, even though I typed it in correctly and it shows up correctly on my first message.
 
PC 1: IP address 192.168.0.1. Wired to router, has phone line and MSN 9 Dial-Up. Is connected to home network workgroup. Says it's "sharing" MSN 9 connection.
PC 2: IP address 192.168.0.101. Wireless card with D-Link DWL-520 card. Is connected to home network workgroup.
Router: IP address 192.168.0.42. Wireless D-Link DI-514 router. Wired only to PC 1. No other wired ports used. No other PCs connected.

Hope this helps. I'm not at my home right now, so I can't provide the ipconfig info as of now.

Btw, about the email thing...I didn't do that. Newsgroup did that automatically for some reason, even though I typed it in correctly and it shows up correctly on my first message.
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Pinto,

Here is an website that explains how to connect two computers, and
share a broadband internet connection. Sharing a dialup connection is
only slightly similar.
http://www.cablesense.com/sharing/compare.php

With a dialup connection, you can't use Option 1 (Router) or 3 (Extra
IP Addresses) as shown. You have to use Option 2 (Sharing Software),
which is what ICS is. If you want to use ICS, but connect shared
computers thru a router anyway, you have to connect the ICS host and
all ICS clients as peers (all computers connected to LAN ports). You
have to disable the DHCP server on the router, configure the ICS host
with ip address 192.168.0.1, and configure the ICS clients with DHCP.

You can't use the router NAT function, so you have to connect the ICS
host to the LAN side of the router. And you can't use the router DHCP
function, because you have to use the ICS DHCP service to provide
configuration to the clients.

Essentially, you make the router into an expensive hub.

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