ICS Client Problems

[Bonka]

My brother's computer is hooked up to mine through ICS. I'm the "host" computer. We share our cable internet connection. Anyways, I've been very successful in using ICS, however, since last night, I haven't been able to get my brother's computer internet ready. Whereas I will have an internet connection, he won't. He can't even browse my computer through the file and printer sharing option. I've tried reinstalling a dozen times, on each computer to no avail. I have no problems accessing the internet and viewing the files on my brother's computer however. So to eliminate, I doubt it is a bad cable or bad nic. This ALWAYS happens after I return from a LAN party and usually, I can get my brother's computer going if I reinstall the drivers.

Any help?

I used this website to help me set up ICS for the first time and this is the way I do it:

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/ics_2000#1

[Jon]

Well, the key thing is that it happens every time you go LANning. You're botching your settings somewhere and it's not allowing him to connect because of them.

Only thing I can think of is to make sure, in your network device properties, that you have "Share this Device (or connection...I don't remember)" enabled.

Reinstalling the driver returns everything to default so that when you reinstall ICS, it all works again.

My best guess is that you need to make sure your NIC is set to retrieve and IP address and then go in and find the option to share that connection.

[Bonka]

Hmmm, I've done all that I know. No worky. I know I can get this to work, but one of the computers is being a savage.

[Bonka]

I was wondering if this could be a registry problem perhaps?

Here is what it reads at the command prompt:


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Windows 2000 IP Configuration

Ethernet adapter Internet Connection (Host):

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : vc.shawcable.net
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 24.83.15.77
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.254.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 24.83.14.1

Ethernet adapter Internet Connection (Client):

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.152.142
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :



I never bothered to check the client adaptor info so I don't know how they compare

[RED Hot Machine]

Try setting the ip address for you NIC card that is connected to the lan as 192.168.0.1, and set your bro's to automatic.

[Bonka]

Thanks. That did the trick :)

Strange how I use to set everything on auto and ICS would work fine. Hmmmm, actually, I would've solved the problem long ago if I wasn't so stupid and kept these settings instead of setting it to auto everytime I reinstalled the protocols.

[RED Hot Machine]

Glad you got it working. For the short time I used ICS, i found that it did not like it if IP address were given to the clients. I think it has something to do with ICS having DHCP built in.

[Bonka]

Now that my client computer is internet working, I can't seem to get it to access my computer through the workgroup. The client can see my computer but can't access the drive. I made sure that my drive can be accessed.

On my host computer however, I can access the drive on the client. I think this might have something to do with me using static configuration instead of leaving it in auto config.