- Aug 24, 2000
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I'm having some difficulties settup an NT box to share my cable connection with the rest of the house. First of all I know NT isn't the choice OS for doing this, but I'm just doing this for the learning aspect (for fun if you will), so bear with me.
I've set up the NT box with two NIC's and have determined that they are both working properly. I've verified this by hooking each one up to my cable router and allowing them to pull IP's then I'll run IPCONFIG to verify that the correct card pulled the IP and the other one has timed out and pulled nothing. I've verified it for both cards.
Next I've installed Winproxy4.0 to handle the ICS aspect of the project (since NT doesn't have a built in ICS feature). I'm able to assign a static IP to my "Internal" connection while allowing my "external" connection to dynamically pull an IP from my ISP.
I went through the network configuration and set my "internal" connection to a static IP in the 128.135.xxx.xxx range. I also assigned a 255.255.255.xxx subnet to it. I set the default gateway to match the default gateway of the "external" connection. Then I ran the winproxy setup utility and it seemed to like the settings. So , I reboot and verify that everything is there the way I've set it.
On the client machines I've assigned them the same workgroup name, unique machine names, and have set them to pull IP's automatically, which they in fact do. Their IP's are also in the 128.135.xxx.xxx range. They are pulling the same subnet mask and are assigning the NT's internal connection IP as the default gateway.
Here is where I'm getting confused.
I'm able to surf the net from the NT box, but I can't browse my network clients under network neighborhood. Furthermore the clients can't browse the NT box either, BUT.....all of the computers can ping each other, they are all on the same subnet, and they are all assigned the same workgroup name.
(No I havn't tried setting up a domain, and I shouldn't need to.)
Any ideas folks?
Thanks,
JR..
I've set up the NT box with two NIC's and have determined that they are both working properly. I've verified this by hooking each one up to my cable router and allowing them to pull IP's then I'll run IPCONFIG to verify that the correct card pulled the IP and the other one has timed out and pulled nothing. I've verified it for both cards.
Next I've installed Winproxy4.0 to handle the ICS aspect of the project (since NT doesn't have a built in ICS feature). I'm able to assign a static IP to my "Internal" connection while allowing my "external" connection to dynamically pull an IP from my ISP.
I went through the network configuration and set my "internal" connection to a static IP in the 128.135.xxx.xxx range. I also assigned a 255.255.255.xxx subnet to it. I set the default gateway to match the default gateway of the "external" connection. Then I ran the winproxy setup utility and it seemed to like the settings. So , I reboot and verify that everything is there the way I've set it.
On the client machines I've assigned them the same workgroup name, unique machine names, and have set them to pull IP's automatically, which they in fact do. Their IP's are also in the 128.135.xxx.xxx range. They are pulling the same subnet mask and are assigning the NT's internal connection IP as the default gateway.
Here is where I'm getting confused.
I'm able to surf the net from the NT box, but I can't browse my network clients under network neighborhood. Furthermore the clients can't browse the NT box either, BUT.....all of the computers can ping each other, they are all on the same subnet, and they are all assigned the same workgroup name.
(No I havn't tried setting up a domain, and I shouldn't need to.)
Any ideas folks?
Thanks,
JR..
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