ICS troubles

[Seal_Kid]

lo peeps. firstly i10 rocked.

secondly, my ICS doesn't work :( and it is really weird. My machine hosts the ADSL connection and uses ip 192.168.0.1 with subnet 255.255.255.0. workgroup is MULTIPLAYUK. this machine runs windows XP pro.

the 2nd (client) machine uses ip 192.168.0.2, same subnet, same workgroup. gateway is 192.168.0.1, DNS is 192.168.0.1 with the right host name and also runs XP pro.

i have tried running all of the home networking wizards but none of them do anything. with the manual setup specified above, it is being very odd. the client machine has no trouble checking pop3 email via the ADSL, and i can successfully ping a variety of websites using the ping command. BUT I CANT BROWSE THE INTERNET USING INTERNET EXPLORER!!!

i dont see why this should be coz it can ping and check email :(

i have also tried sygate home networking but to no avail. any help would be great as i am at the end of my tether and dont want to blow £120+ on an ADSL router.

thanks in advance

[Fembot]

is your IE setup to use a proxy server or somthing?

[Seal_Kid]

nope. no proxy settings turned on. under lan settings i tell it to auto detect settings, but ticking and unticking doesnt make any difference :(

this is a biatch

the only thing i thought about that might be messing it around is that i have a sound blaster audigy, and there is a firewire port on it. this means i have a 1394 net adapter aswell as my network card. there is no reason it should be interrupting the connection but im getting desperate. any chance that has something to do with it?

[Space Cowboy]

Try using external DNS servers such as BTs on

194.73.73.95

and

194.73.73.94

On the client machine.

Enjoy!

[Seal_Kid]

i gave that a go but to no avail :( its like something is blocking it. "web site found. waiting for reply" sits there for the usual 10 seconds before giving up.

i dont have my firewall running and XP's built in one is disabled. this is major weirdness :/

thanks for the suggestion space cowboy

anything else i can try?

[Fembot]

if youve got another browser handy you might want to try that

or even try telneting on port 80 to a webserver and forming a http request yourself.

[Dizzie]

or trash it all and start again :D

[Zenith]

Okay then, here we go again. I've used this wizard SO many times at i10 I almost know it by heart.

Get to the Network Setup Wizard on your main Internet machine by:
Start > Settings > Network Connections > Network Setup Wizard
Click Next.
Click Next again.
Choose the option "This computer connects directly to the Internet...". Click Next
Choose the connection that you'll be using to connect to the 'net. Click Next
Type in a description for your machine in Computer Description.
Give your machine a unique name in the Computer Name box. It cannot be the same name as an account on the machine. Click Next
Choose a name for your home workgroup. The default is MSHOME. Click Next
The wizard should now give you a box confirming your settings. Click Next if it seems okay.
If all is well, then you should see an animated screen moving towards a folder with screens on it.
Once the wizard has done the magic, it asks you "What do you want to do?" with 4 options available. Choose the Create a Network Setup disk and click Next
Put a floppy disk in your machine. If you need to format it, click on the Format Disk button, otherwise click on Next
It won't take long to setup the disk, and when it has finished, click Next
Finally click Finish
Right then, that is your host machine sorted out. Now you need to take that floppy disk around each machine in your home network and run the program by :
Start > Run > Netsetup
Follow the instructions that it gives, and when it asks for the workgroup, make sure you type in the same name as the workgroup of your host machine.

Setting up your ICS network this way will update the ICS systems on all your machines to XP levels. You will also notice afterwards that you have a small icon in your systray that allows you to control the status of the Internet connection of the host machine remotely from the client machine. That is why you should use the XP Networking setup disk and not the native Home networking wizards for each machine. The floppy updates the ICS on each machine to interact better with XP's ICS.

You shouldn't need any proxies, or other special settings at all. Just make sure that you DON'T have Internet Connection Firewall active on your Local Area Network properties, otherwise no-one on your network will be able to even see your machine properly.

[Seal_Kid]

OMFG!!!!! i ran through this wizard about 20 times doing EXACTLY what you just said to do. and this time it chooses to fu**ing work. i mean why?? computers really piss me right off

the only thing i did differently was when it came to the client machine, it asked me whether to use the host's connection (which it auto detected). this time i said no and told it to dial up through another computer.

i h8 pc's

thanks for your input. if you didnt post i wouldnt have been bothered to run it for the 21st time :D

[Seal_Kid]

hold your horses...

its being dodgy... a web page that has been cached loads first time no probs, but a new site has trouble loading. first few visits it doesn't display anything. after that it shows text but you need to refresh 3 or 4 times before the whole page loads.

and email accounts seem to be able to be checked infrequently. 1 second all my mailboxes are ok, then 2 seconds later they cant be found.

but its better than where i was to begin with