Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 22:15:54 +0000 From: "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Win98SE Internet Connection Sharing
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 19:54:33 -0500 From: "David Hettel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Win98SE Internet Connection Sharing
Matt ICS should not be that hard to setup.
For some reason when I went to install ICS from scratch again today, it worked perfectly! I'm not quite sure what was causing all my problems the other day. In a way I wish I knew what was going wrong then so I might be a bit quicker sorting things out if I do this again in the future.
However, somewhere along the line I finally sorted out the conflict this Xircom combo modem/NIC has been having at boot in my Libretto 70CT since I got it 2.5 years back. It would stop the process of the Lib's boot cycle, ending with the system powering down if the card was inserted. I've been inserting it >after< a full boot to the desktop all this time.
But I remembered something I saw in the list archives way back, looked it up again, and found an article someone has posted from Toshiba discussing problems with the Toshiba power saving driver file pwrsave.vxd conflicting with something (not a modem at that point) at boot. So I followed the fix, and disabled pwrsave.vxd by putting a semicolon before it in system.ini, and now the system boots fine with the Xircon inserted. Guess I can set up a batch file to enable it again when I go on batteries.
Don't know if that was the magic fix or not... but things >are working< now.
On the computer with the Internet Connection, you want to click on it's connection to the Internet and share it.
Were you looking at Win98SE, or XP David? In W98's DUN dialup connection I'm using, there is no menu item for 'Sharing' on the right click menu as the is for drives and folders in Windows Explorer.
That seems wrong to me. But if you are using a dialup connection right click on the modem icon and choose to share it.
That's something else I don't think I have in W98. The modem shows up in Device Manager and the Modem properties in Control Panel, but with no option to share it. Guess it's not necessary in W98SE. Seems just setting up the LAN with sharing for each systems primary drive was sufficient.
This will set up your other
LAN connection with an IP of 192.168.0.1 and a netmask of 255.255.255.0. These should be the only things listed on the TCP/IP properties for it.
Well... The installation of ICS from Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Windows Setup was all I had to do! It set those IP and netmask addresses automatically on the primary host system. Nothing at all had to be done after that. The secondary system needed no IP address assigned. It was done automatically by the ICS setup on the promary system.
On the "client" computer, (I set them up by hand) be sure that the TCP/IP properties are set to "Obtain an IP address automatically" That should be all you need to do. If ICS is working correctly everything else will get filled in. All other settings, (DNS, DHCP, Gateway,) will be filled in with
an address of 192.168.0.1
Indeed!
ICS will only work with an address of 192.168.0.1, for the non internet connected network adapter (the 2nd NIC), on the ICS computer. All computers connected to the ICS computer will have an address of 192.168.0.XXX and a sub net mask of 255.255.255.0. Trying to change these values will break ICS. The gateway, DNS 1 and 2, and DHCP servers will be set to 192.168.0.1 for computers connected to the ICS computer.
Dale Shields (an institution himself on CServe) over at the CServe Windows support forum pointed to a utility, WINIPCFG, to run at Start > Run on the client. Those IP addresses don't show up in anything in Network properties that I could find. But WINIPCFG lists everything by running:
Start | Run | WINIPCFG | Select the Nic | Release | Renew
I've uninstalled ICS on one system now, set it up on the other, uninstalled that, and reinstalled it on the original system, and everything has gone perfectly. Well, except for the Libbys being a bit slow at establishing the LAN. But having established I can do it repeatedly, I feel a bit better.
And it all boiled down to having a properly set up LAN, and then just installing ICS from: 'Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Windows Setup | Internet Tools'
Thanks for the input.
Matt
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