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by pireland

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Situation:

1. Have three Win ?98 PCs on a 10 base T ethernet Lan with a single host machine connected directly to an Internet cable modem (IE have two (PCI) nics installed on the host).
2. Have specified local IP addresses on the LAN and use TCP/IP as the LAN protocol.
3. Have had ICS running successfully until recently when I moved the host function to a different machine.
4. Presently have a working LAN and host connection to the Internet but am having difficulties successfully installing ICS on the host after repeated attempts.

ICS completes its installation, and shows up as binding to TCP/IP etc. in Control Panel ? Network, however it does not function and I notice that I am not getting (shared) and (home) designations in my network properties. I have tried re-installing from scratch and partial reinstallations of network components several times but cannot get the proper binding any more that will allow ICS to work. I suspect that I need to ?flush out? my drivers in the Windows or edit the registry, or some combination of the two, but am at a loss as to how best to proceed. Any pointers would be MUCH appreciated!

Thanks,

Peter

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by cfburgess

To "flush" the drivers, I have had success in booting safe mode and removing them from there.
If you are running a firewall, is it configured properly?
On my win2k ics machine, I had to increase the value (8 to 16) for IRPStackSize after setting up the firewall. This may not be present on w9x.

by pireland

Have used Safe Mode to drop network protocols, services, etc. and done so repeatedly when some elements remained "un-dropped".

I'm using also "Black Ice" as a firewall and it seems to be configured correctly. I've deactivated both that and Norton Anti-virus while trying to sort the matter out, but still without success.

I'm not sure at all about IRPStackSize settings but will look the issue up. It was working before without problem, so I doubt this is the solution(?).

Everythingseems to be working well network and connection-wise EXCEPT for the ICS and the inability of the installation routine to show the normal (home) and (shared) designation beside shared resources. This seems to indicate that the install did not complete without problems. Wiping everything out and starting again has shown not to be the answer, so I am expecting that there is some "residue" of earlier installations that needs to be dealt with... Nothing that I have in the way of instructions covers this issue, unfortunately...

by tdienst

Peter,

Make sure you Uninstall The ICS from the first host. Windows 98 does not like TWO ICS hosts.

by pireland

Sorry,

I should have thought to mention that this had been uninstalled, so this is not the cause of the problem.

by mccallum78

I am currently using All aboard V2.2 or Sygate 4.0 which both are very good sharing. All aboard is very basic and not a lot of functions bar your basic sharing, Sygate is very good .... has great user profiles to setup and also built in firewall which is handy.

by mark

Do not specify LAN addresses. ICS likes to do that. It will setup 192.168.0.1 on the Host and then dish out the rest using DHCP. Do not use DNS or gateways on the clients. Let DHCP give it to them. Finally, make sure IE5.5 is installed and use "Automatic Discovery" option in the proxy LAN settings on the clients.

by pireland

ICS might like to do that, however I have been unable to get it to install correctly to begin with, and my DHCP service installed on the host is also proving troublesome. I have gone with the static addresses in order to keep my network functioningwith the understanding that ICS can live with this if and when I get it running properly.

I have been following instructions http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q238/1/35.asp which describes the problem of missing TCP/IP(Home)and (Shared) designations as resulting from and invalid or corrupt iphlpapi.dll file, which I have replaced before unsuccessfully reinstalling again. I'm thinking that I have found that there can be other issues that cause this as well(!).

I have also used regedit to look at my settings and confirm that I have only one entry for each of the three host adapters (Internet, Local and ICShare). The settings in each look reasonable.

Anyway, I have wasted more than enough time trying to find the solution and have decided to give up on the exercise and seek a different dsolution other than ICS. Thanks to all for the suggestions...

Peter

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