ICS in Win2K Pro?

[Daniel]

I have used a program called winproxy for awhile now, but wanted to try the win2k ics. My main machine hooked up to the net has 2 nics, the home lan is setup at 192.168.0.1, .2, and .3. When I tried to enable it on the win2k machine it says something is using the ip it needs for automatic configuration. I figured it needed 192.168.0.1 cause I thought I read that somewhere. So I tried changing the 1 to a 10 but still getting the same error, anyone else using this and have any insight about it?
thanks,
Daniel

 

[Dat]

Daniel,

sorry i dont have an answer for you but I was hoping you can give me some details on how you got your lan to work.

I have a simliar setup.
1. Win2k machine with 2nics, 1 for lan and 1 for cablemodem.
2. Win2k laptop machine with 1 nic for lan.
3. Linksys 5port workgroup hub

Machine 1 first nic connects to the cable modem fine and I have internet connection.
I set the 2nd nic to ip address 198.162.0.1, mask 255.255.255.0
I set the nic in machine 2 to 198.162.0.2, mask 255.255.255.0, gateway 198.162.0.1

When i try to ping machine 2 from machine 1, the request times out.
When i try to ping machine 1 from machine 2, the request also times out. But the icon on machine 1 indicates that it had received packets.

Can you tell me if I did someting wrong? Is there more involved than this?
If you have any resources or advice please lemme know.

thanks
dat

 

[Daniel]

Can each machine at least ping themselves? Do you know that both the cables are fine?

 

[Dat]

yes pinging self works and the cables have been verified.
I noticed a fair amount of mention of workgroups or something, is that something I have to look into?

thanks,
dat

 

[Daniel]

Well to "see each other" like for file sharing and stuff they both need to be in the same workgroup, by default I think it's just named workgroup, under your identification tab in network properties, check that first but I think they should be able to ping each other without that.

 

[Dat]

Okay i just set them both to the same workgroup.

The ping from the from the main machine to the client works!

Pinging 198.162.0.2 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 198.162.0.2: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
Reply from 198.162.0.2: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
Reply from 198.162.0.2: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128
Reply from 198.162.0.2: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 198.162.0.2:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

but the ping from client to main does not!

sigh.

 

[AKA]

Dont set any ip addresses on your internal network at first. Set them to obtain an ip address. Try to get ICS working that way at first. Then change them to ip addresses after that works.
Only way I could get ICS working for me on my 2K lan.
Then I scrapped that and went back to sygate. Only needed to learn ICS, didnt want to use it.

Hmm, now that I think about it, im not even sure I ever got it to work with set ip addresses. I know I did when they were set to obtain an ip.

Oh well, cant remember.

good luck.

Oh dont forget to share out your external nic for ICS.

 

[Daniel]

Yeah I might just say scrap it, I mean I wanted to try it but I don't want to go dhcp, this winproxy is good for web sharing but email and stuff is kind of a bug, you think sygate is the best other option?

 

[heng1028]

sygate is no good either
i used sygate for a while ago

when the time i want to attach file in my hotmail account
i couldn't get it attached and i can't send file to others thru icq either

 

[KawLiga]

I had assumed that the IP would have to be set for the client machine, but is it possible to leave it set on dynamic? I'm going to set up a 2 computer network and I don't mind setting the IP for the NIC in the server, but I wanted to leave the client IP to be obtained from the server because I wanted to make it easy to dialup with the client if the server wasn't running.

I was going to use either ICS (in WinME) or Winroute. Is this possible with either of these programs?

 

[vec]

I use win2k's ICS on my home lan. The win2k machine acts as my file/internet/print server for my win98se machines.

I configured the win2k system as 192.168.0.1 and the others 192.168.0.10/20/30/40 etc.

I followed these instructionsand everything worked correctly.

I can't tell you if the process is different for cable/dsl users.