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by kenlea1

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Networking beginner, have managed to create home network of 2 PC's, 1 running 2000 Pro, one XP Pro. Network fine with Cat5 and TCP/IP addressing. Want to share Dial-up modem on Win2000 machine with XP machine: have managed to get settings OK so that Dial-up and LAN work on host (2000) machine, but can't configure ICS without losing network setup...i.e., if network configured for ICS, this removes fixed TCP/IP address from client, so it drops off network...Very basic question, am reading it up, but any quick tips appreciated.

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by hereinoz

If you have DHCP enabled on the 2K box, and that is the default, the XP box should hook up OK with the Win2K box if the Network IP of the Win2K box is set to 192.168.0.1, and the XP box is set to "server assign" on all settings.

You may have to set the gateway on the XP box to read 192.168.0.1

Try setting it up without ICS, with the XP box set up for server assigned IP addresses and see if you can connect across the network. If that works, then share the internet connection and it ought to work. Don't forget the gateway IP address.

Also, are you running a firewall on the 2K box that is configured to allow access to a single IP address, or perhaps an IP range that is not 192.168.0.xxx. If so, that will stop the network dead. Turn the firewall off until you get it all going, then turn it back on and configure it.

Alan.

by hereinoz

No idea. With WinME working through an XP gateway, there was a utility that allowed remote conection and disconnection, but I think that is not possible in Win2K or XP.

Perhaps there is someone out there who knows of a network utility that will allow remote disconnection of the shared internet connection.

If there is, can you let me know :-)

Alan

by kenlea1

OK, that seems to work, many thanks - but one last detail: how do I disconnect remotely? Didn't see any options for Automatic disconnection, etc. So can close down IE remotely, but not the connection.

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