I have two computers on my home network connected through a D-Link DI-624. Windows XP Pro desktop is the dialing machine that shares its internet with the network. It's wired to the DI-624. My notebook is Windows XP Home and connects via wired or wireless. I've turned off DHCP on my router since my desktop is acting as the gateway.
Everything was working great until last Friday. I went to a LAN party and in order to use my router with their DSL connection, I disabled my desktop's internet connection sharing (ICS) and enabled the router's DHCP. No problems there.
When I brought my computer home, I then reversed the above process (disable router's DHCP, enable desktop's ICS) but any computer attempting to connect to the network does so with limited connectivity.
If I manually configure my notebooks IP information, it works fine. But any connected will not get an IP address from the desktop.
Here's what I've tried (assume restarts after any step and firewall was completely off for all attempts):
? Disable and re-enable ICS on desktop
? Delete and resetup dial-up connection
? Repair connection
? netsh winsock reset
? WinSockFix.exe (free utility out there)
? Turned off ICS and enabled router's DHCP?verified that clients can work with DHCP
? Attempted ICS from notebook?successful only once
? Went into advanced ICS settings on desktop, checked DHCP-something and it worked via wired-only. Disabled this same setting and wired still worked until a system restart. Wireless never worked.
? Spyware scans on both computers
I saw somewhere else on the internet to run "netsh dhcp server reset" but netsh doesn't like that.
I suspect the DHCP server is messed up on my desktop or maybe even both computers. Is there a way that I can repair this?
System Restore is absolutely worthless. Every attempt that I make says that the restore was incomplete and never gives a reason. I hate System Restore.
Any ideas? Your help will be greatly appreciated.
Everything was working great until last Friday. I went to a LAN party and in order to use my router with their DSL connection, I disabled my desktop's internet connection sharing (ICS) and enabled the router's DHCP. No problems there.
When I brought my computer home, I then reversed the above process (disable router's DHCP, enable desktop's ICS) but any computer attempting to connect to the network does so with limited connectivity.
If I manually configure my notebooks IP information, it works fine. But any connected will not get an IP address from the desktop.
Here's what I've tried (assume restarts after any step and firewall was completely off for all attempts):
? Disable and re-enable ICS on desktop
? Delete and resetup dial-up connection
? Repair connection
? netsh winsock reset
? WinSockFix.exe (free utility out there)
? Turned off ICS and enabled router's DHCP?verified that clients can work with DHCP
? Attempted ICS from notebook?successful only once
? Went into advanced ICS settings on desktop, checked DHCP-something and it worked via wired-only. Disabled this same setting and wired still worked until a system restart. Wireless never worked.
? Spyware scans on both computers
I saw somewhere else on the internet to run "netsh dhcp server reset" but netsh doesn't like that.
I suspect the DHCP server is messed up on my desktop or maybe even both computers. Is there a way that I can repair this?
System Restore is absolutely worthless. Every attempt that I make says that the restore was incomplete and never gives a reason. I hate System Restore.
Any ideas? Your help will be greatly appreciated.
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