Can I have Win2K as ICS Server and WinXP as ICS client?(Sloved)

[MrGrim]

My flatmate and I are having problems with ICS. I'm the server with Win2K and ICS, and he's the client with WinXP. The settings are the following

Server
IP: 192.168.0.1
Sub Mask: 255.255.255.0

Client
IP: 192.168.0.26
Sub Mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.0.1

BTW we were using these settings for about 2 months when my roomate had Win2K on his machine.

I have ICS enabled on the connection exactly the way I used to do it when he had Win2K, so I don't think the problem is on my side. He run the WinXP Network Wizard and selected the second option, which is "I'm getting my connection for another PC on the LAN" but it didn't help.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance.

 

[Nothinman]

I don't know the specifics cause I don't run XP or ICS, but ICS is just MS' form of NAT and is OS independent. Any box running IP should be able to work behind NAT.

 

[MrGrim]

I don't think that ICS is NAT enabled, correct if I'm wrong but Windows 2K server has a different type of sharing that uses NAT, different to the normal Windows ICS.

 

[DragonMasterAlex]

Windows 2000 Pro ICS uses NAT as it's method of sharing the connection. Plain and generic. Server can either use NAT in ICS, or it can be custom configured with Routing and Remote Access Services. The downside of ICS is that it implements a DHCP server that you can't turn off (unless there is some registry hack I don't know about, which is entirely possible), and it dishes out IP address along the 169.254.x.x scheme.

Try setting his machine to get an IP addy from DHCP, and see what happens.

DMA

 

[MrGrim]

Stupid me, firewall was blocking him.