Selective ICS with XP

Is it possible to turn off ICS to certain machines on a network using ICS
whilst leaving it on for others?

I have a network with 5 machines on it, one just as a router with ICS. I
would like to be able to turn ICS off to machines 1 and 2 remotely without
it affecting machines 3 and 4.

any ideas or suggestions welcome!

Richard Haygreen wrote:

> Is it possible to turn off ICS to certain machines on a network using ICS
> whilst leaving it on for others?
>
> I have a network with 5 machines on it, one just as a router with ICS. I
> would like to be able to turn ICS off to machines 1 and 2 remotely without
> it affecting machines 3 and 4.
>
> any ideas or suggestions welcome!

How about giving the machines that you don't want to have internet
access a static IP?
As soon as you give a machine a static IP, ICS doesn't wanna know!
That way, you can still share files and use Remote Desktop etc. on the
machines which don't have the internet access.

I don't know if this works because I haven't tried it, but I assume it does.

Anton

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 00:25:57 +0000, Anton Gysen wrote:

> Richard Haygreen wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to turn off ICS to certain machines on a network using ICS
>> whilst leaving it on for others?
>>
>> I have a network with 5 machines on it, one just as a router with ICS. I
>> would like to be able to turn ICS off to machines 1 and 2 remotely without
>> it affecting machines 3 and 4.
>>
>> any ideas or suggestions welcome!
>
> How about giving the machines that you don't want to have internet
> access a static IP?
> As soon as you give a machine a static IP, ICS doesn't wanna know!
> That way, you can still share files and use Remote Desktop etc. on the
> machines which don't have the internet access.
>
> I don't know if this works because I haven't tried it, but I assume it does.
>
> Anton

I use static addresses; ICS has no problem with that.
(I chose static because I didn't know whether my ISP would
get funny if I tried getting more than one IP address.)
Maybe you could firewall out machines 1 and 2? Using VNC
machine 5 if you want to do it remotely? And if you
have a firewall on the ICS machine? Dunno how that'd work
with DHCP, though.

Hope that's some help,
Ross

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>
> I use static addresses; ICS has no problem with that.
> (I chose static because I didn't know whether my ISP would
> get funny if I tried getting more than one IP address.)

Your ISP never sees the private addresses that ICS DHCP hands out -
that's the whole point of NAT.

Ross wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 00:25:57 +0000, Anton Gysen wrote:
>
>
>>Richard Haygreen wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Is it possible to turn off ICS to certain machines on a network using ICS
>>>whilst leaving it on for others?
>>>
>>>I have a network with 5 machines on it, one just as a router with ICS. I
>>>would like to be able to turn ICS off to machines 1 and 2 remotely without
>>>it affecting machines 3 and 4.
>>>
>>>any ideas or suggestions welcome!
>>
>>How about giving the machines that you don't want to have internet
>>access a static IP?
>>As soon as you give a machine a static IP, ICS doesn't wanna know!
>>That way, you can still share files and use Remote Desktop etc. on the
>>machines which don't have the internet access.
>>
>>I don't know if this works because I haven't tried it, but I assume it does.
>>
>>Anton
>
>
> I use static addresses; ICS has no problem with that.
> (I chose static because I didn't know whether my ISP would
> get funny if I tried getting more than one IP address.)
> Maybe you could firewall out machines 1 and 2? Using VNC
> machine 5 if you want to do it remotely? And if you
> have a firewall on the ICS machine? Dunno how that'd work
> with DHCP, though.
>
> Hope that's some help,
> Ross

How on earth do you get ICS working with a static IP? Do you set the DNS
server to be the machine running ICS? (192.168.0.1)
My ICS works perfectly when I set the client machine to aquire it's IP
automatically, but once you specify an IP (even if it is in the
192.168.0.x range), you don't get anywhere.

Anton

Ross wrote:

> I use static addresses; ICS has no problem with that.
> (I chose static because I didn't know whether my ISP would
> get funny if I tried getting more than one IP address.)
> Maybe you could firewall out machines 1 and 2? Using VNC
> machine 5 if you want to do it remotely? And if you
> have a firewall on the ICS machine? Dunno how that'd work
> with DHCP, though.
>
> Hope that's some help,
> Ross

How on earth do you manage this? Do you set the DNS to be the machine
running ICS (192.168.0.1)?
My ICS works a treat until you assign the client machine a static IP
(even if it is in the 192.168.0.x range).

Anton

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 01:34:51 +0000, Anton Gysen
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Ross wrote:
>
>> I use static addresses; ICS has no problem with that.
>> (I chose static because I didn't know whether my ISP would
>> get funny if I tried getting more than one IP address.)
>> Maybe you could firewall out machines 1 and 2? Using VNC
>> machine 5 if you want to do it remotely? And if you
>> have a firewall on the ICS machine? Dunno how that'd work
>> with DHCP, though.
>>
>> Hope that's some help,
>> Ross
>
>How on earth do you manage this? Do you set the DNS to be the machine
>running ICS (192.168.0.1)?
>My ICS works a treat until you assign the client machine a static IP
>(even if it is in the 192.168.0.x range).
>
>Anton

Here's the Microsoft knowledgebase article on how to configure ICS with static
clients.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;309642

It works ok as I've set up my clients with static IP's

Clansman

Static IP's seem to kill ICS here too, not sure why as I am sure I have used
them in the past. I was kind of hoping there might be a hidden menu
somewhere with a tick box for each machine, unchecking the tick box would
stop a machines connection. Will try the firewall, but with DHCP there is a
risk of blocking my own IP at some point!

Thanks for all your help.

"Anton Gysen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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| Ross wrote:
|
| > I use static addresses; ICS has no problem with that.
| > (I chose static because I didn't know whether my ISP would
| > get funny if I tried getting more than one IP address.)
| > Maybe you could firewall out machines 1 and 2? Using VNC
| > machine 5 if you want to do it remotely? And if you
| > have a firewall on the ICS machine? Dunno how that'd work
| > with DHCP, though.
| >
| > Hope that's some help,
| > Ross
|
| How on earth do you manage this? Do you set the DNS to be the machine
| running ICS (192.168.0.1)?
| My ICS works a treat until you assign the client machine a static IP
| (even if it is in the 192.168.0.x range).
|
| Anton

Have you put the IP of the default gateway as the IP address of the machine
connected to the net?

no. machines are told to look on the LAN for a gateway, which is
192.168.0.1, but each machine is not set up with the default gateway as
192.168.0.1