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by ewarrington

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I am trying to connect a computer running windows 98 2nd edition to the internet through a workgroup. The online computer has win2k. I can ping the computers from each other. When I try to go online using the win98 computer, it tells me it can't find a connection.I disabled the modem hoping that it would use the NIC, but that doesn't work. Am using tcp/ip on the computers. Would someone be able to tell me what am doing wrong. The computers are connected through a work group. Am not using 2000 server. I have 2000 pro.
thanks for any help you may be able to give.
Cartmell Warrington.

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by cg it

What type of internet connection do you have? DSL, Cable, dial up modem? How are you connecting the computers to each other?

by ewarrington

To:Dr The Corporate Group.
Am using Cable as my internet connection.
The computers are conneted togerther with a hub. The one running W2k has 2 Nics. One is connected to the internet and one to the hub.
Cartmell

by hereinoz

The best way is to get hold of an Internet router - not expensive - and connect that to the internet and also to the hub. Connect both computers to the hub.

With the router properly configured, probably also with automatic IP assignment on both machines, all traffic will be dealt with as appropriate and both computers will be able to connect to the internet.

The other option is to set up Internet Connection Sharing on the Win2K machine and configure the Win98 machine to work through that gateway.

by hereinoz

The best way is to get hold of an Internet router - not expensive - and connect that to the internet and also to the hub. Connect both computers to the hub.

With the router properly configured, probably also with automatic IP assignment on both machines, all traffic will be dealt with as appropriate and both computers will be able to connect to the internet.

The other option is to set up Internet Connection Sharing on the Win2K machine and configure the Win98 machine to work through that gateway.

by hereinoz

The best way is to get hold of an Internet router - not expensive - and connect that to the internet and also to the hub. Connect both computers to the hub.

With the router properly configured, probably also with automatic IP assignment on both machines, all traffic will be dealt with as appropriate and both computers will be able to connect to the internet.

The other option is to set up Internet Connection Sharing on the Win2K machine and configure the Win98 machine to work through that gateway.

by hereinoz

The best way is to get hold of an Internet router - not expensive - and connect that to the internet and also to the hub. Connect both computers to the hub.

With the router properly configured, probably also with automatic IP assignment on both machines, all traffic will be dealt with as appropriate and both computers will be able to connect to the internet.

The other option is to set up Internet Connection Sharing on the Win2K machine and configure the Win98 machine to work through that gateway.

by hereinoz

The best way is to get hold of an Internet router - not expensive - and connect that to the internet and also to the hub. Connect both computers to the hub.

With the router properly configured, probably also with automatic IP assignment on both machines, all traffic will be dealt with as appropriate and both computers will be able to connect to the internet.

The other option is to set up Internet Connection Sharing on the Win2K machine and configure the Win98 machine to work through that gateway.

by hereinoz

The best way is to get hold of an Internet router - not expensive - and connect that to the internet and also to the hub. Connect both computers to the hub.

With the router properly configured, probably also with automatic IP assignment on both machines, all traffic will be dealt with as appropriate and both computers will be able to connect to the internet.

The other option is to set up Internet Connection Sharing on the Win2K machine and configure the Win98 machine to work through that gateway.

by hereinoz

The best way is to get hold of an Internet router - not expensive - and connect that to the internet and also to the hub. Connect both computers to the hub.

With the router properly configured, probably also with automatic IP assignment on both machines, all traffic will be dealt with as appropriate and both computers will be able to connect to the internet.

The other option is to set up Internet Connection Sharing on the Win2K machine and configure the Win98 machine to work through that gateway.

by hereinoz

The best way is to get hold of an Internet router - not expensive - and connect that to the internet and also to the hub. Connect both computers to the hub.

With the router properly configured, probably also with automatic IP assignment on both machines, all traffic will be dealt with as appropriate and both computers will be able to connect to the internet.

The other option is to set up Internet Connection Sharing on the Win2K machine and configure the Win98 machine to work through that gateway.

by hereinoz

The best way is to get hold of an Internet router - not expensive - and connect that to the internet and also to the hub. Connect both computers to the hub.

With the router properly configured, probably also with automatic IP assignment on both machines, all traffic will be dealt with as appropriate and both computers will be able to connect to the internet.

The other option is to set up Internet Connection Sharing on the Win2K machine and configure the Win98 machine to work through that gateway.

by hereinoz

The best way is to get hold of an Internet router - not expensive - and connect that to the internet and also to the hub. Connect both computers to the hub.

With the router properly configured, probably also with automatic IP assignment on both machines, all traffic will be dealt with as appropriate and both computers will be able to connect to the internet.

The other option is to set up Internet Connection Sharing on the Win2K machine and configure the Win98 machine to work through that gateway.

by ewarrington

Thanx chappieaj, I do have internet connection sharing enabled. It's enabled on the Nic that's connected to the internet. Should I enable it on the one connected to my local area network?
Thanx again. Looking forward to your answer.
Cartmell.

by cg it

well one of your problems is the computer with the two nics is the gateway and you have to specify the NIC card IP address as the gateway address. Additionaly, for this to work, the computer acting as the gateway must be on.

by cg it

didn't explain this well...the computer with two nics is in essence the "Gateway" with the nic connecting to the cable modem as the "external connection. That external connection will have an IP address assigned to it. That IP address is the gatewayIP address and you type that in on your network connections box for the computer connected to the hub. Hope that explains it. Don't use the internet connection sharing wizard.......will just screw things up....manually assign IP addresses and gateway addresses

by hereinoz

How the heck did all that happen - I clicked submit once and all hell breaks loose!!

The gateway setup mentioned is probably the key to it - in the TCP/IP properties of the Win98 machine. The NIC connected to the Internet should have an IP address that it presents to the local network, probably 192.168.0.1 at a guess, and that would be your gateway address.

I hope I don't get 13 replicas of this one!!

by ewarrington

Hi Guys, Did everything. Now I am getting a DNS error message when I try to connect.
Thanx again and a Happy New Year to All.
Cartmell.

by al-geber

IF you have cabel connection..
Set the automaticaly assign IP and gateaway for the NIC that connect to your cable modem.
set the dns automatically.
and try to ping to the internet. If you can ping the connection it's a good start.
Set the staticIP for the second NIC for example 10.10.10.X or 192.168.0.x but I prefered you use 10.10.10.x for cable connection and 255.255.255.0 for subnet mask.
Cheked the Internet Connection Sharing in the NIC that connect to the cable modem.When the computer ask would you like to use the 192.169.0.x static IP just click yes. The second NIC will change the IP into 192.168.0.x. when you see it then change to the original IP that you assign.
In the client NIC put the gateaway as the same to your second NIC in your server and DNS the same as DNS in the first NIC that connect to your cable modem

I hope you can understand my words.And hope this help.

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