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re: Connecting 2 home computers to share a single internet connection
Friday, December 9, 2005 at 4:54 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by cblack
(1 messages posted)
Hey Guys - I was having the same problems as everybody else on this thread and it
is very painful! I feel your pain and have a solution for your problems. It is all
about peer-to-peer vs. mixed. I know that does not make sense now but read on and
I think you will glad you did. I actually got this information from a MS - MVP by
the name of Steve Winograd. Big Ups to Steve and I hope it works for you like it
worked for me. Later - C. Black Here it is: Run "ipconfig /all" in a command prompt
window on each computer, and look at the "Node Type" at the beginning of the output.
If it says "Peer-to-Peer" (which should actually be "Point-to-Point") that's the
problem. It means that the computer only uses a WINS server, which isn't available
on a peer-to-peer network, for NetBIOS name resolution. If that's the case, run the
registry editor, open this key: HLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netbt\Parameters
and delete these values if they're present: NodeType DhcpNodeType Reboot, then try
network access again. If that doesn't fix it, open that registry key again, create
a DWORD value called "NodeType", and set it to 1 for "Broadcast" or 4 for "Mixed".
On Wednesday, December 31, 2003 at 8:51 am, Steve wrote:
>Hi Nick, I was traveling all day yesterday, and just got
>hime. What I did when I had a similar setup is just use
>XP Firewall on the PC that was hooked up to the internet, and also left it on 24/7.
>No firewall on the
>other PC. I would think using zonealarm on
>the internet PC would be OK, but never tried it. I'm
>now using a router, and no firewalls other that the built
>in router firewall. So if everything starts working, then
>don't Shutoff the Main PC, the laptop shuting down is
>OK though.
>
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