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re: Connecting 2 home computers to share a single internet connection
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 2:08 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Brian Cooney
(1 messages posted)
That fixed it for me. Thanks so much (2 years later)!
On Friday, December 9, 2005 at 4:54 pm, cblack wrote:
>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".
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