Your problem is in the settings of something on the desktop machine,
perhaps the firewall in the desktop or the ICS bridge itself. ICS has
a "bridge" function to pass the local network through to the outside
world's network (the Internet, in this case) via outbound dsl
connection. Somehow, that's screwed up.
Go for a wireless router -- I recommend the Linksys WRT-54G, even
though you only need 802.11b connections. You'll find better sales
and rebates on the WRT-54G. I _do_not_ recommend a Belkin router. I
had one and was not happy with it.
You really should _not_ use ad-hoc if you are interested in security
of your network.
dslmodem -->router---wired to desktop
-- wireless to notebooks
set notebooks to infrastructure only.
--
Terry
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On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:33:42 +0100, "Bob G0KYF"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>The main pc can connect fine (connected to dsl modem).
>I have 2 notebooks and neither can connect to the internet but both share
>files across the network (with the pc that connects to internet) with no
>problems.
>I have gpone through the internet connection sharing troubleshooter in xp
>but no luck.
>They were working fine but suddenly stopped, I thought it may of been an
>automatic update that screwed it up.
>Regards Bob
>
>"Terry Stockdale" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed).. .
>> On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:55:07 +0100, "Bob G0KYF"
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi All and thanks for reading this.
>>>I have 2 belkin 802.11b cards, one in the pc and other one in laptop
>>>running
>>>in ad-hoc mode. Running Xp Pro on pc and XP home on laptop.
>>>All was working fine until a couple of weeks ago and now I cannot get onto
>>>the internet from my laptop(connection is via pc), I can swap files,print
>>>ect on the network but cannot access the internet even to update my
>>>antivirus ect.
>>>I have turned off all firewalls reset all explorer settings and even tried
>>>a
>>>system restore as far back as I can go (less than 2 weeks due yo xp
>>>update).
>>>Any ideas apart from binning the belkin cards.
>>>Thanks in advance Bob
>>
>> Need some more info to give you a possible solution.
>>
>> Which computer can not access the Internet - the desktop, the laptop
>> or both?
>>
>> How do you connect to the Internet -- dialup, cable or dsl?
>>
>> Terry
>> My website: http://www.terrystockdale.com
>> My weekly newsletter: http://www.terryscomputertips.com
>
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