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| 137252 | 2003-04-20 06:47:00 | Hey Everyone. I have just setup a network at home between my desktop which rungs Windows XP Pro and my laptop which runs Windows XP Home. I have got them talking to each other okay and can share files, printers etc. However my problem is that i am trying to share my ADSL internet connection. Currently the desktop is connected to the Internet through its internal modem but I cant seem to get the laptop to establish a connection. I have right clicked on my Internet Connections and gone to the properties box. Under Advanced I have clicked on the appropriate boxes under Internet Connection Sharing. But under Home Network Connection it doesnt seem to have my Private Network Connection listed there at all. I am thinking this is the problem, would appreciate if someone can advise me if I am on the right track here? Also do I need to do anything to my laptop for this? And do i just double click on Internet Explorer as per usual to get it going? Would appreciate as much help as possible as i have been trying different things for hours. Cheers. |
Scottie (837) | ||
| 137253 | 2003-04-20 09:30:00 | When you set up the network, did you use XP's "Network Setup Wizard"? If so, did you get it to share the internet connection then? Did you use the Network Setup Wizard on the laptop as well? Otherwise... could it be a firewall of some kind? |
somebody (208) | ||
| 137254 | 2003-04-20 09:58:00 | When I had this problem, I just disabled the default firewall. Off course, you can enable it for normal use, but disable when you want to do fire sure if you are worried about general security. Good luck, |
~~~~~ s y ~~~~~ (2054) | ||
| 137255 | 2003-04-20 13:16:00 | This can be both a simple and/or a very complex problem, with an awful lot of variables. The network setup wizard is pretty good, at least compared to other version of windows. First, you say that you are connecting from your laptop to your desktop. How ? Via a router or directly - ethernet card to ethernet card. If the former you need to use a NON-cross over cable. If the latter a CROSS over capable. The reason for the latter is that when going from computer to computer (of any description) you can't have the wires transmitting on the same pins. They have to CROSSED over. You don't do this with a switch or router as it is done inside the device. If that is sorted, check that the machines are part of the same workgroup - XP defaults to MSHOME - which irritates me ! Doesn't matter what you call it as long as they belong to the same one. Then check (under network connections. Are they sharing the same IP address range. If you use the setup wizard you might have problems here. There are two IP ranges commonly selected. One is called the private range and usually starts with the number 168.x.x.x. The other is the usualy range (as I call it) which has the values 192.168.1.X. X can be any number between 0 and 254. So your desktop might be 192.168.1.2. I deliberately didn't use a 1 in that last position. Most ADSL devices demand this address for themselves. Next the subnet mask needs setting to 255.255.255.0. The mask octets 255 means that when overlaid on the IP address the system will only look at the last figure. Hence the reason for different values here for different machines. I wouldn't mind betting that your laptop as chosen an IP in the range 168.x.x.x. I got so fed up trying to placate the Gods (with five machines at home, 2 for me and one for my laptop, one for the wife and one for my son, one for the printer and finally one for a wireless connection (which is bloody useless)), that I decided to do them all manually. As long as you keep a detailed notebook its really quite easy. Go to network settings and select TCP/IP. Select Properties. Choose "Use the following IP Address" and set your desktop as the main machine, 192.168.1.2 (it is the gate way). Set the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0. Set the gate way 192.168.1.1 (the modem). In the next area use the DNS settings of your ISP. There are usually two - mine starts with 203.96.152.4. Click OK. You can go to the Advanced tab and set the firwall on, but it is a bit pathetic. Get ZoneAlarm off one of the PC World freebi disks. There is a little learning curve, but nothing beats it. Now, with your laptop repeat the process not forgetting to give it a different IP address, say 192.168.1.5. Same subnet, same gateway and same DNS. Reboot both machines and they should then share the inernet connection which will probably be a bit slow if its and ordinary modem. Best of luck. Sorry about the lenghthy reply. And yes there are spelling mistakes ! Crunn |
Crunn (1068) | ||
| 137256 | 2003-04-20 21:23:00 | HI Scottie Assuming you've still got a problem, I'm going to go on a different track here. Your network seems to be going to I doubt that it's an IP address problem. Once you enable internet conncetion sharing on your desktop (if it's the host) then XP will assign 192.168.0.1 to that machine - in this way XP sets itself up as a dhcp server to any other machine which wants to access the internet through your desktop. I think the asnwer may be as simple as setting up your laptop correctly to get to the net. You don't need to (and shouldn't) setup internet connection sharing on the laptop - just run up internet explorer, click on tools-options then connections, then clcik on the Lan Settings button at the bottom. Then make sure that "automatically detect settings" is ticked. If not, tick it. You can also do this through the control panel-internet settings. It should go then - I'm thinking that this is all you need to do. |
falvrez (390) | ||
| 137257 | 2003-04-21 22:07:00 | it definetely isn't an IP address problem. I stress that you MUST use Network Setup Wizard on both computers. I tried setting it up manually, and even replicating the settings which the wizard made, it still wouldn't go. IF you have done it, then I can't think of any other way to solve it. Try reinstalling the network from scratch. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 137258 | 2003-04-25 06:44:00 | Nah, the network wizard in XP sux. It can make things worse! You DONT haveta use it for networking. All you do is enable file/printing (if you want to share a folder/s). Once the NICS have been installed, click on My Network Places. View Network connections, highlight the LAN icon/properties, remove QOS or whatever it is, you dont need that. Then click on TCP/IP. Use the following. As previously noted something like 192.168.0.1 or whatever on the main PC. Subnet 255.255.255.0. Then for any other PC's connected to it thru ICS (if you use it), add the above as well as entering 192.168.0.1 or whatever you gave the main PC under default gateway. Also put 192.168.0.1 (or whatever) in preferred DNS server address. I have 3 PC's and all can share and all can get onto the net. One has the printer, and altho the printer isnt a network printer the other 2 PC's that are networked can also print to it. |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
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