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by nyelugo

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I share my ISP connection with clients on a LAN. But, lately I've had this problem with one of my clients. All, but one of the clients, are able to browse the Internet. This client works well on the LAN, but fails to display a sigle web page.

In restoration attempts, I've re-done the Internet Connection Wizard on the client, I've re-installed Iexplorer, I've re-installed the ethernet adapter,and I've even re-installed Win98 on this particular client. Probably, I need some experienced advice on this.

Please help.

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by mike jones

Double check that the machine is getting its ip settings including DNS.

From a dos prompt, type winipcfg, select the advanced button.

Also from dos, ping the default gateway, if you to not get a repsponse you cannot connect to your router, hence will never see the internet.

Ping the DNS server to see if you get a response, if you cannot ping the DNS server, this is why it is not resolving the addresses.

Also, do you have a router which only allows a certain amount of connections, itmight be that you have exceeded you allowable amount.

It would be helpful if you would post what make of router you use or if you are using ICS.

by philthegreat

Do they use a computer as the gateway to the internet?
Check the settings for the internet of that computer, does the gateway settings with the network mask correct?

If all the settings of the computer is OK, and the client computer is in win98, and the server is win2k, then it may be a special problem with the server. There have been lots of questions on that forum on that problem. But it is not a simple one, I think there is a special problem in win2k (maybe a bug).
Please search in this forum on that problem or search the knowledge base on Microsoft on win2k server with win98 client browsing problem.

by ctmoore1998

Go to a command prompt. Enter IPCONFIG does the system have the correct IP addressing information i.e. correct IP address (since your doing windows ICS this should be 192.168.0.xxx and your subnet should be 255.255.255.0 the default gateway should be your ICS PC at 192.168.0.1 If this is correct can you PING the ICS PC?? If so go to your network properties and check your IP information here it should match what the IPCONFIG reported at the DOS prompt. Also check the DNS tab and make sure its enabled and has the correct IP addresses for your ISP's DNS servers. If necessary make any changes to the IP configuration and reboot the PC. Next check your Internet Explorer Connection configuration and ensure that it is properly configured for a LAN connection. Typically ICS should have made a Diskette that you can run on each client to ensure proper configuation. If IE looks ok run through its connection wizard just to be sure.

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