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re: Internet Connection Sharing Win XP (PC) and Win 2000 (Laptop)
Wednesday, February 8, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11797 messages posted)
Paul
In order for you to share the InterNet with your desktop it must be on line with
the InterNet then you can share it with other PC's.
Like the name states SHARE.
If you want it to tell the desktop to dial the net from your Laptop you will need
to use a 3rd party software like PC Anywhere or LapLink 11.5 or i-share (from Lantastic)
but the desktop must be up and running with the 3rd party software running in the
background.
Now DSL is a new ball game because it HOT and ready to go all the time not like the
dialup modem setup.
τΏτ DEX/Bj
You can also help some one :>)
Please revisit your post so that others on this forum will know if the solutions
were helpful or not helpful .
On Wednesday, February 8, 2006 at 3:49 pm, Paul Waters wrote:
>Hi Everyone,
>
>I set up a home network between my Desktop and my laptop. I can successfully do
>file sharing.
>
>I am having trouble with the Internet Connection Sharing (ICS). Is there anyone
>who could please help me? I would like to click on Internet Explorer on my laptop
>and have it automatically tell my Desktop to connect to our dial up Internet Service
>Provider which is People PC right now. I also have MSN on the computer.
>
>I read 3 books, and followed different ICS guides from the Internet. One was from
>Microsoft, one from homenethelp.com and the other was http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/crawford_02july01.mspx.
> I believe I have the Win XP Desktop and the Win 2000 Laptop set up basically right.
> There might be just a few small quirks someone can help me with.
>
>I have had to turn off one or both of my firewalls just in order for the networking
>to function. I turn them off every time, just so I can get things figured out.
>I also turned off my virus protection a few times, to see if that would help.
>
>I spoke to a guy from India while I was calling Tech support and he had me change
>some proxy server numbers, but that didn't help. Another local computer guy told
>me to auto detect the DNS and disable the WNS, but I couldn't click the button auto
>detect the DNS, because it was greyed out. When I tried to leave that menu (which
>was Local Area Connection Properties Internet Protocol TCP/IP Properties Advanced,
>DNS and WINS) it said that I had an empty primary WINS address and wondered if I
>wanted to continue.
>
>Anyway I am lost. If anyone has the patience or the charity to help me out I would
>appreciate it. I have been messing with it for 3 days. It hasn't been frustrating,
>but it is now a challenge I definately want to conquer. Thanks for reading, looking
>forward to your reply's.
>
>Paul
>
>PS: Like I said the File sharing works between the two computers. The Desktop
has
>an ethernet card and is connected to the wireless router (Port 4) through a network
>cable and the Laptop is also using a ethernet card with a network cable that goes
>to the wireless router (port 3). I don't think that would cause a problem. I even
>changed the IP addresses of the computers to see if the auto-assigning might be
causing
>problems. The network worked just the same with the old IP addresses and the new.
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