ICS with two Win2K machines - possible?

[blammo22]

I'm trying to get ICS to work when both the server and the client are running Win2K - it worked before when the client was Win98SE, but I can't figure it out with Win2K.

On the server, I have the options selected to "share the connection" and allow "on-demand dialing" on the dialup properties for my connection (ISDN). However, I don't know how to get the client to see/use the dialup connection. Tried setting TCP/IP addresses for the two machines, setting them to DHCP, installing NetBEUI in addition to TCP/IP. Any ideas? They can see each other on the network fine; I just can't get ICS to work...

BTW, if anyone knows any good FAQs or help sites on ICS between 2 Win2K machines, please let me know - all the sites I could find describe how to set up the client under Win98SE only...

Thanks in advance...

 

[Steelo]

blammo - it does work, i have it working at home - i think it was pretty straight forward : all i had to do was to configure a dun connection, and tick the boxes you mentioned to share that connection. But before you do that, make sure that your client is not configured with a static ip address as this caused me some problems. Leave it to use dynamic ip addresses - share the dun and choose the relevent local area network connection to share it over, then connect to the internet with that dun connection.
Once thats okay and working, restart your client, when it reboots, it'll request an ip address and ICS on the server will assign an ip address of the 192.168.0.X type. to confirm this, when your client has booted, at the dos prompt type :

ipconfig /all

and you should see it has received a dynamic ip address. If it hasnt, you may want to try typing :

* ipconfig /release

if that completes successfully, followed by:

* ipconfig /renew,

and this may request a new dynamic ip address. I say 'may', because im not sure that you can do that with the ICS DHCP server. You may recieve the error message "There are no adaptors configured to use DHCP" But it might work. Anyway, if the client gets a valid ip address, you should be able to test your connection to the 'net by typing:
* ping www.microsoft.com ( or whichever site you prefer to use )
if the ping succeeds, then you should be able to use your web browser with access to the 'net. If it doesnt allow you to surf properly, you may want to change the internet explorer connection settings to connect via the lan.

If this doesnt work, let me know, i'll check my exact settings when i get home tonite - like i say, its been a while since i set mine up!

cheers

Steelo

 

[blammo22]

Thanks. I'll give it a shot later on tonight, hopefully, and let you know how it turns out...

 

[spec8472]

I have Win2k Pro sharing a dun connection.

I have had everything from Linux (RH6.x && Slack6.x) to NT4, to Win2k Pro && Server, and various flavers of Win9x.

Only problems i have personally experienced: If you try to have multiple IPs on the LAN card that is on the private network, ICS fails to work at all, and DHCP-serving also stops working.

Pointers to look for:
Client machine: make sure it is set to Obtain IP Address Automaticly. Does *NOT* have DNS/Gateway specified. (i dont know about WINS, since i dont currently have access to a server to try it out... )

Host machine: Single, Static IP specified (it *MUST* be 192.168.0.1 subnet 255.255.255.0 otherwise ICS will not work)

If it still isnt working, delete the DUN connection, and re-create it, friend had problems with getting 98SE to work, that fixed the problem.

 

[blammo22]

Thanks for the help; I now have it working correctly. I think the main problem with my setup was that under the DUN/Properties, I only had TCP/IP selected for logon. In order for ICS to work, you also need to select "File and Printer Sharing"...