"Other computers cannot connect to internet thru this computer..."

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John Jordan

Good morning.

I've got two computers in our house that we want to
network. At one time in the past we were but XP won't let us.

We have a router connected to the internet. This works on
my computer. But when trying to create a network with my
sons computer, mine says that "other computers cannot
connect to internet through my computer" (in the Networking
Wizard) and so I can't do anything more.

We've run the Wizard on his computer and can't see each
other's computer from the other.

What am I missing? Seems to be a problem on my computer.

Both are running XP.

Thanks.
 
Go into network connections, right click on the one that
hooks your computers together, and unclick the firewall.
This happened to my two home computers and the firewall
blocked my wife from getting e-mails.
 
Tried that already. Didn't do anything.
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Go into network connections, right click on the one that
hooks your computers together, and unclick the firewall.
This happened to my two home computers and the firewall
blocked my wife from getting e-mails.
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"John Jordan" said:
Good morning.

I've got two computers in our house that we want to
network. At one time in the past we were but XP won't let us.

We have a router connected to the internet. This works on
my computer. But when trying to create a network with my
sons computer, mine says that "other computers cannot
connect to internet through my computer" (in the Networking
Wizard) and so I can't do anything more.

We've run the Wizard on his computer and can't see each
other's computer from the other.

What am I missing? Seems to be a problem on my computer.

Both are running XP.

Thanks.
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Tell the Wizard that the computers connect to the Internet through a
"residential gateway", which is what it calls your router.
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Tried that, too.

Not sure if the problem is on my side or the other side.
The other side, tried to repair the network connection and
get a message something like "can't renew IP". Does that help?

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