Hi y’all,
My issue seems straight and simple but I just can’t seem to figure it out! I have 2 PC’s both running windows Xp (SP2)
computer`A’ has a cable modem (a Motorola Surfboard sb5100) attached to it and I’ve networked it to computer`B’ using a crossover cable and `Internet connection sharing’.
The problem is that the PC’s can see each other fine and I can share/transfers files/folders without any issues, however the internet on computer`B’ will not run. Computer`A’ though has no issues running the internet.
`Internet Connection Sharing’ has worked great in the past for me. However, due to a virus attack I had to reinstall windows on computer`A’ with a fresh copy of XP (sp2) and was stuck with no internet for computer`B’. I was able to fix this issue once, when I noticed that my ISP had changed their subnet mask to 255.255.224.0. I changed the subnet mask on both NIC’s to reflect the same on each computer and regained internet connectivity. However shortly after that `fix’ I suffered the same virus attack and had to redo windows yet AGAIN on `computer A’.
I’ve formatted and reinstalled windows sp2 on computer`A’ but now I have no clue what to do, the subnet mask `fix’ isn’t working anymore (and yes the ISP’s subnet is still the same). The only difference between the computers is the addition of Kaspersky Antivirus on both, and now while I have no internet on computer`B’ I DO have the odd ability to open up google.com (and all other variants like e.g. google.ca) in my browser and I can do google searches with results too! However I can’t do anything else (e.g. browse to other sites, access email, use google’s cached pages etc.)
I’m stumped can you help?