Problem trying to set up ICS -- help appreciated.

I have just set up a peer to peer wireless network between a laptop
and a desktop, both running XP Home.

The desktop has internet access via NTL set top box and a second NIC.

The desktop can access the internet without problems but i can't get
any response from the laptop.

The actual wireless network functions okay, ping from each PC to the
other and shared folders and printer access is okay.

I have run the Network setup wizard on both machines, the host first
and then the laptop and get no error messages.

I have set up many networks in the past but have always done
everything manually including shared internet access using both
software and hardware routers but this one has me baffled. I've never
tried using ICS in Windows before.

I assume I am missing something very simple.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

Martin

"Martin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have just set up a peer to peer wireless network between a laptop
> and a desktop, both running XP Home.
>
> The desktop has internet access via NTL set top box and a second NIC.
>
> The desktop can access the internet without problems but i can't get
> any response from the laptop.
>
> The actual wireless network functions okay, ping from each PC to the
> other and shared folders and printer access is okay.
>
> I have run the Network setup wizard on both machines, the host first
> and then the laptop and get no error messages.
>
> I have set up many networks in the past but have always done
> everything manually including shared internet access using both
> software and hardware routers but this one has me baffled. I've never
> tried using ICS in Windows before.
>
> I assume I am missing something very simple.
>
> Any suggestions would be most welcome.
>
> Martin

Look at this group. A lot of people including myself have this problem, and
it's been driving me mad for a month. No help from the microsoft networking
groups either. I suspect it's some kind of bug in the windows update. Sorry
to sound pessimistic, but I've tried everything, and given up. I've decided
to get a router to run the network instead.

Marcus

I had problems with ICS, I gave up in the end and installed analogx's proxy
server, it works well.
http://www.analogx.com/contents/down...work/proxy.htm
Also works well with Sygate personal firewall
http://smb.sygate.com/buy/download_buy.htm

John.


"Marcus Fox" <please-reply-via-newsgroup-th@-i-posted-to.com> wrote in
message news:Eax3b.379$(E-Mail Removed)...
> "Martin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I have just set up a peer to peer wireless network between a laptop
> > and a desktop, both running XP Home.
> >
> > The desktop has internet access via NTL set top box and a second NIC.
> >
> > The desktop can access the internet without problems but i can't get
> > any response from the laptop.
> >
> > The actual wireless network functions okay, ping from each PC to the
> > other and shared folders and printer access is okay.
> >
> > I have run the Network setup wizard on both machines, the host first
> > and then the laptop and get no error messages.
> >
> > I have set up many networks in the past but have always done
> > everything manually including shared internet access using both
> > software and hardware routers but this one has me baffled. I've never
> > tried using ICS in Windows before.
> >
> > I assume I am missing something very simple.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be most welcome.
> >
> > Martin
>
> Look at this group. A lot of people including myself have this problem,
and
> it's been driving me mad for a month. No help from the microsoft
networking
> groups either. I suspect it's some kind of bug in the windows update.
Sorry
> to sound pessimistic, but I've tried everything, and given up. I've
decided
> to get a router to run the network instead.
>
> Marcus
>
>

In article <3f50d1b1@212.67.96.135>, (E-Mail Removed) says...
> I had problems with ICS, I gave up in the end and installed analogx's proxy
> server, it works well.
> http://www.analogx.com/contents/down...work/proxy.htm
> Also works well with Sygate personal firewall
> http://smb.sygate.com/buy/download_buy.htm
>
> John.
That's a great tip, John. Thanks. I too have been tearing my
hair out since I got an ADSL line last week, trying to share an
internet connection between 2 computers using ICS. I had
analogx up and running in a few hours. The big problem for me
was Zonealarm - in the end I had to turn it off on both
computers - get analogx working - and then slowly bring
Zonealarm back.

"John" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:3f50d1b1@212.67.96.135...

> I had problems with ICS, I gave up in the end and installed analogx's
proxy
> server, it works well.
> http://www.analogx.com/contents/down...work/proxy.htm

I've just downloaded this and had a play about with it. I've got it working
fine with Internet Explorer, my FTP client and Outlook Express for
newsgroups (I don't use Outlook Express for email)

However, I cannot for the life of me get it to work for email with either
Mailwasher or Eudora. The Analogx log file shows it has accepted a POP3
connection from the 'client' PC, the servers in the email programs are set
to the IP address of the 'server' PC, the SMTP, POP3 and email addresses are
all properly entered in the Analogx email configuration box. There isn't
much else to configure, unless I'm missing something very obvious???

Any ideas? Thanks.

"Server" PC is XP Pro, "client" PC is XP Home, Zone Alarm running on both
and using a 56k dialup connection to the internet.

Mike

"Mike McConnell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:bisurn$cs9vk$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> "John" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:3f50d1b1@212.67.96.135...
>
> > I had problems with ICS, I gave up in the end and installed analogx's
> proxy
> > server, it works well.
> > http://www.analogx.com/contents/down...work/proxy.htm
>
> I've just downloaded this and had a play about with it. I've got it
working
> fine with Internet Explorer, my FTP client and Outlook Express for
> newsgroups (I don't use Outlook Express for email)
>
> However, I cannot for the life of me get it to work for email with either
> Mailwasher or Eudora. The Analogx log file shows it has accepted a POP3
> connection from the 'client' PC, the servers in the email programs are set
> to the IP address of the 'server' PC, the SMTP, POP3 and email addresses
are
> all properly entered in the Analogx email configuration box. There isn't
> much else to configure, unless I'm missing something very obvious???
>
> Any ideas? Thanks.
>
> "Server" PC is XP Pro, "client" PC is XP Home, Zone Alarm running on both
> and using a 56k dialup connection to the internet.

I had same problem with XP ICS. Tried the proxy, but as above, mail not
working.

Marcus

"John" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:3f56fe93@212.67.96.135...

> I have no knowledge of the mail services you mention, the only setting I
> needed to change was in the IE advanced options, setting 'use http1.1
> through proxy connections' and unchecking the 'use http1.1' box for the
> client machines.

Are you able to send and receive email with a client machine and the proxy
connection? It's only email I cannot get to work - web, newsgroups and my
FTP client all work fine with the proxy server.

Mike