i have a network between two computers both running Win XP PRO. I used the ezlan tutorials and got the file sharing and printer sharing to work. Then i went on to the internet sharing (dial-up connections). I went through the whole tutorial and got everything to work. I connected on my server computer and it showed up on my client computer. It said that the server computer was connected to the internet and had the two computer logo thing on the bottom right of the screen. It even showed the dual incoming/outgoing bytes sent. All was well. I tried using the internet on my client computer, didnt work. I tried on my server computer, it worked. So i downloaded an internet sharing program, WinGate. I tried (obviously failed) at setting it up and now i'm stuck and dont know what to do. Thanks in advance.
so close to sharing internet, yet so far away
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i turned off all firewalls....oh yeah, what i did was download wingate, install it as the "server" on the server computer and the "client" on the client computer. The client computer is simple set up....i'm prety sure i'm doing somethign wrong on the server setup. I have a belkin router if that helps. Again, i'm using 56k. Thanks again.
WinXP Pro has this cool ICS wizard.
Just run the wizard on your host PC (not sure if you need to be connected or not, but my DSL was connected when I did this).
Then it'll create a floppy disk.
Use the floppy on the other machine, set it up for the client.
reboot both machines.
It should be done.
I wouldn't even bother with WinGate if it's only 56K. Too much overhead, it'll slow it down.
Use the built-in Windows ICS. Don't forget to turn off firewall (again, it'll slow it down plus it's too slow for any hacker anyway).
Just run the wizard on your host PC (not sure if you need to be connected or not, but my DSL was connected when I did this).
Then it'll create a floppy disk.
Use the floppy on the other machine, set it up for the client.
reboot both machines.
It should be done.
I wouldn't even bother with WinGate if it's only 56K. Too much overhead, it'll slow it down.
Use the built-in Windows ICS. Don't forget to turn off firewall (again, it'll slow it down plus it's too slow for any hacker anyway).
DO NOT listen to this moron. You should ALWAYS use a firewall, no matter what. It can't slow down anything. A software firewall would only hinder your connection if you have a 10 Megabit+ line. And also about your link being too slow for hackers! that's such bullcrap. If you have important information on your computer(s), you should always secure your connection, I don't care if it's 14.4 Kbps dialup or not. Hackers actually would RATHER target dialup computers since most dialup users are clueless...
i uninstalled wingate and I turned off my firewall, then I tried to go to www.google.com and other websites that i know exist, i keep getting the same error message:
Internet Explorer could not open the search page.
Anyone know what i'm doing wrong?
Internet Explorer could not open the search page.
Anyone know what i'm doing wrong?
Ummm, taking advice from a moron like "bigpow". Before you try upper-layer protocols like HTTP, try pinging an external machine. Like "ping google.com"
no i'm not going to take "bigpow"'s advice, i'm going to have a firewall...i'm just turning it off for now until i can get the shared internet to work, after that i'll turn it back on with holesin it for the client comptuer. I'm still not being able to connect with my client comp.
i tried pinging google.com from both comps now (client and server) and on both of them it gave me an error. I pinged through command prompt. My server comp can access the internet fine, i'm having no problems with the server comp, it's the client comp that doesn't seem to wanna do anything.
If you're getting an error from pinging on your gateway machine, you definitely have some internet connection config issues there...
Pnig an internt host(www.amd.com) from the server. Use the ip address it resolves to, and ping that ip address from the client machine
If you can ping the IP address then your connections are working, and its a DNS issue. If you cant ping the same address on the internet that the server can, then you have other configutation issues.
It sounds like you may need to have the DNS information loaded on your client machine. ICS will route the IP information
to the internt, but it will not do name look up resolution for your client.
Peace,
If you can ping the IP address then your connections are working, and its a DNS issue. If you cant ping the same address on the internet that the server can, then you have other configutation issues.
It sounds like you may need to have the DNS information loaded on your client machine. ICS will route the IP information
to the internt, but it will not do name look up resolution for your client.
Peace,
The only sound advise so far... without thinking everybody is moron.
Not sure where you live WarmAndSCSI, but I seem to bump into a$$holes like you every now & then.
Be nice! ...and peace!
Just trying to help Nab here... Your remarks are not really useful, eh?
Ooh, and you're correct! Mine is 10Mbps, what's yours?
I pinged www.amd.com with my server computer and got an ip address. I pinged the ip address with my client computer and i got the correct response. So, the connection is working and there is a DNS issue, as you said above. There are DNS configurations on my internet connection, should I transfer those same addresses to my client computer DNS? ifnot, where am i suppose to get the DNS information from? From the internet connection tutorial that i got off of www.practicallynetworked.com it told me to keep DNS off, is that going to interfere? Thanks again.
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