re: Successful ICS with WinPoET
Saturday, July 12, 2003 at 5:40 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by cyberM
(1 messages posted)
Thank you Colin! You rescued me from 5 weeks of internet connection sharing hell,
after upgrading one of the computers in the house to a new motherboard. Thanks
again.
On Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 2:31 pm, Colin Freas wrote:
>I have managed to set up ICS over a network of XP and 2K machines, with WinPoET
(v2.0.)
> The ISP is Verizon, in Washington, DC.
>
>This is mostly from trial and error.
>
>This assumes you've successfully installed WinPoET and can connect to the internet
>from the host, and that a LAN is set up which allows the host to see the clients.
>
>Get to Network and Dial-up Connections. You should have 3 connections. One for
the
>LAN, one for the NIC connected to the DSL modem, and the DSL modem connection itself.
> I label these LAN, DSL NIC, and WinPoET Connection.
>
>Here are the setttings that work for me:
>
>DSL NIC - Apply a 'dummy' static IP address here. (This is from the Verizon
>installation manual.) Go to the connection's Properties, and make sure in the General
>tab that only TCP/IP is checked. Under the TCP/IP Properties, use ip address 10.255.255.0,
>with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. Everything else is blank. Don't worry. Click
>OK. Go to the sharing tab, make sure the checkbox for sharing is unchecked. Click
>OK.
>
>Under the LAN connection's Properties, I have everything checked. Client
>for MS Networks, File and Printer Sharing, NetBEUI, and TCP/IP are all checked.
>You may not need all of these. The TCP/IP settings here will be modified automatically
>when ICS is enabled on the WinPoET Connection (which is the next step.) Under the
>Sharing tab, make sure the checkbox is unchecked. Click OK.
>
>Go to the WinPoET Connection Properties. Only one thing here: Click on
the
>Sharing tab, check the "Enable Internet Connection Sharing..." checkbox. Make sure
>the 'For local network:' dropdown lists the LAN connection, not the DSL NIC connection.
>
>Restart if you need to, and restart the client machines. All the clients need is
>TCP/IP set to obtain IP and DNS information automatically.
>
>Good luck! Hope this helps some people.
- Written in response to:
- Successful ICS with WinPoET (Colin Freas: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 2:31 pm)
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