No help from group on Win2000 and XP home network

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mr_jones9999

hello again

does anyone know why ICS would not be connecting on a USB
dsl connection on a Win2000 machine hooked by ethernet to
a laptop running XP? I can see both machines on the
network from either end, yet I have not had even one
answer to this deliema and I see this is not isolated to
just me.

can anyone help

Mr_jones
 
Maybe you have a crossover cable where a straight through cable should be,
or vice-versa.
 
You need to tell us more about your configuration and the symptoms of your
problem:
:
Can the Win2k machine connect to the Internet?
Which Local Area Connection is at the top of the binding order?
What happens when you open IE on the XP machine?
Is IE set to never dial a connection?
Run ipconfig /all on both machines - what are the results?
Can the XP machine ping the USB adapter's IP address?
Is ICS enabled only on the USB connection?
Is the firewall enabled in XP?
Etc.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
 
1) Yes the win 2000 machine connects to internet fine
(only have had this problem with xp)

2)ethernet connection 192.168.0.1

3)DNS error, can't find server

4)Yes, never dial connection

5)shows ethernet adapter at either static addresss (if
set) or address set by win 2000 machine

6)No it can not ping the usb dsl modem, even though the
ICS is in effect and did change the ethernet network
adapter to 192.168.0.1

7)no XP firewall, using ZoneAlarm 5.x suite, set on xp
machine as client, with gateway of 192.168.0.1, zonealarm
suite 5.x on win 2000 machine set with win 2000 machine
set as gateway.

8) the network can see each other machine i.e. in win 2000
network places shows both machines, in xp under workgroup
shows both machines, can map drives from both machine to
the other, have permissions set on win 2000 and I believe
on the xp home machine.

can you offer assistance.

I can answer quite a few win 2000 pro sp4 questions.

thank you

Mr_jones9999
 
have orange cable, worked on all other versions of windows
up to xp, that is where the problem lies, I believe.

I am not using a hub, only the ethernet adapters on both
machines.

thanks

Mr_jones9999
 
Try:

On the XP machine set primary DNS to the IP address of your ISP's DNS
server. Make sure the XP machine's default gateway is 192.168.0.1.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
 
Hello,

thank you for the suggestion, I have done that, is seems
that for some reason the ICS on the windows 2000 machine
is not seeing the ethernet adapter even though it changed
( you know the pop up box explaining the change to
192.168.0.1) the adapter address to 192.168.0.1

I have even tried without the firewall (zonealarm 5.x) as
I said I have done this before without a hitch yet for
some reason the Xp won't work.

any further suggestions would be helpfull

thank you for the reply

Mr_jones9999
 
Try uninstalling not just disabling Zone Alarm.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
 
have done that also. I am thinking that somehow the win
2000 is not compatable with the xp networking, as all the
other windows os work fine. just the problem with XP,

my next try will be with WiFi access point as I know that
works on the xp machine. if that doesn't then I know for
sure that it is in the win 2000 machine, sure don't want
to talk to MS as an incindent is 395.00 to talk to them
with windows 2000 pro. whew. a bit spendy. and this isn't
worth that, I am talking to the service security update
people, it may have something to do with
their "trustsworthy computing" and the mess that has
caused. aaaaawwwwww well. maybe I can get HP to send me a
windows 2000 pro rescue disk. I don't really like xp
anyway, call me old fashion.

thanks anyway,

Mr_jones9999
 
Though I have never used ICS, since I think NAT routers are a much better
solution at today's prices AND more secure, I can not say I have ever tried
it but I have never had a problem networking a lan of W2K and XP computers.
You may first want to try to change the MTU on your dsl connectoid to around
1400 to see if that helps. Of course the buit in XP firewall should be
disabled for ICS and booting into safe mode with networking is always worth
a try when troubleshooting. Otherwise I would try to connect the XP box
directly to the dsl modem to see if it can gain access to the internet that
way. Winsock corruption seems to be more common and there is a free program
to repair it at http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm using lspfix. Tracert can
help show where a bottleneck is at in a network connection and entering an
IP address [such as 207.46.130.108] in IE address bar instead of a URL can
help tell if problem is dns or not. More advanced troubleshooting techniques
would be to use a packet sniffer like Ethereal [free] on the xp box and
possibly free tools from Sysinternals such as filemon, regmon, tcpview, and
tdimon. --- Steve
 
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