ICS with XP and 2000

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Brett McVey

I have a home network setup, with an XP Home machine, and
an IBM Thinkpad running Windows 2000. The XP machine is
connected to the Internet via dial-up, and both the XP
and the 2000 machines have internal ethernet network
cards. I ran the "setup a home or small office network"
wizard on the 2000 machine. Variously, the wizard replies
with "cannot complete the network setup wizard" or "You
are almost done, just need to run the network setup
wizard on the other computer to complete." The first
error message is vague, and the second one cannot be
fixed with the network setup disk that XP creates,
because Windows 2000 won't use it. I then tried to take
care of things manually. The XP machine did end up with
an assigned an IP address of 192.168.0.1 to the Lan
adapter. The Thinkpad was set to "obtain ip address
automatically", so I changed it to a static 192.168.0.2.
Now, the machines can share resources, but the 2000
machine cannot get to the Internet through the
connection. The dial-up connection is active on the 2000
machine, IP works between two home networked machines,
and IE 6 is configured as directed by Microsoft on the
2000 machine (Tools, Internet Options, Connections, Lan
settings and Uncheck all of the boxes). I have also set
the LAN connection on the Windows 2000 machine to use
192.168.0.1 as the DNS server address. Nothing works! I
am giving myself a mohawk...please help.
 
how do you connect these two computers, hub or crossover cable?

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"Brett McVey" said:
I have a home network setup, with an XP Home machine, and
an IBM Thinkpad running Windows 2000. The XP machine is
connected to the Internet via dial-up, and both the XP
and the 2000 machines have internal ethernet network
cards. I ran the "setup a home or small office network"
wizard on the 2000 machine. Variously, the wizard replies
with "cannot complete the network setup wizard" or "You
are almost done, just need to run the network setup
wizard on the other computer to complete." The first
error message is vague, and the second one cannot be
fixed with the network setup disk that XP creates,
because Windows 2000 won't use it. I then tried to take
care of things manually. The XP machine did end up with
an assigned an IP address of 192.168.0.1 to the Lan
adapter. The Thinkpad was set to "obtain ip address
automatically", so I changed it to a static 192.168.0.2.
Now, the machines can share resources, but the 2000
machine cannot get to the Internet through the
connection. The dial-up connection is active on the 2000
machine, IP works between two home networked machines,
and IE 6 is configured as directed by Microsoft on the
2000 machine (Tools, Internet Options, Connections, Lan
settings and Uncheck all of the boxes). I have also set
the LAN connection on the Windows 2000 machine to use
192.168.0.1 as the DNS server address. Nothing works! I
am giving myself a mohawk...please help.
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Configuring the 2000 machine to obtain an IP address automatically
should be all that's needed.

If you configure the 2000 machine's TCP/IP settings manually, use
these values:

IP Address: 192.168.0.x (1<x<255)
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.0.1
DNS Server = 192.168.0.1 or your ISP's DNS server

Don't make any manual settings on the XP machine's local area network
connection. ICS is quite touchy about the settings and might not work
right if you change anything. It might help to disable ICS and then
enable it again to get the default ICS settings.
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"Tom Hayes" said:
I am experiencing a similar problem to Brett - my Win2K
client cannot access the World Wide Web, although POP
email, instant messaging, and filesharing software works
fine. The files and printer on my Win XP 'server' can be
accessed by the Win2K machine, and the XP machine can
access the 2K's files. I connect these two machines with
Belkin F5D5000 ethernet cards and a Belkin crossover
cable. As far as I can tell, I have both machines'
software set up correctly, having all the appropriate
protocols installed. My WIn XP machine basically set up
itself, using the network setup wizard, and is on the
default settings. My Win 2000 machine is set to the same
subnet mask and has the XP machine as primary DNS server
and default gateway. I really don't know what else to do.
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Are you sharing a DSL connection that uses PPP Over Ethernet (PPPoE)?
If so, here are some possible fixes. Any one of them should solve the
problem:

1. Install Windows XP Service Pack 1 on the ICS host computer.

2. Find the right MTU setting on the client computer, as shown here:

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article04-107

and then make the setting manually on the client computer, or use
DrTCP to make it:

http://www.dslreports.com/front/drtcp.html

3. Download the free RASPPPoE program and install it on the host
computer. Use it instead of XP's PPPoE program. Details at these
sites:

http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/adslpoe2.htm
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~normanb/

See these sites for more information:

Connectivity Problems on ICS Clients When You Use a PPPoE Connection
on a Windows XP ICS Host
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;319661

Troubleshooting MTU Size in PPPoE Dialin Connectivity
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/794/router_mtu.html
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