Win 98 networking with Win XP home edition

Hi:

Another case of things worked yesterday and not today. My
host computer connects to the internet via a dial-up and
is running Win 98 SE. Two client computers are each
running Win XP home edition. The two client computers can
see each other; the host computer can see the clients; the
clients can't see the host and therefore can't get onto
the internet via a program called WINGATE. I have re-run
the network wizards on the clients, but same issue. I
can't finf a network wizard on the host computer, but I
guess the network is intact from the host's vantage point
since the clients can be seen

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

Adam

In article <060e01c3b74d$24f8b630$(E-Mail Removed)>, "adam"
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>Hi:
>
>Another case of things worked yesterday and not today. My
>host computer connects to the internet via a dial-up and
>is running Win 98 SE. Two client computers are each
>running Win XP home edition. The two client computers can
>see each other; the host computer can see the clients; the
>clients can't see the host and therefore can't get onto
>the internet via a program called WINGATE. I have re-run
>the network wizards on the clients, but same issue. I
>can't finf a network wizard on the host computer, but I
>guess the network is intact from the host's vantage point
>since the clients can be seen
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Adam

I'm sorry, but I'm not familiar with WINGATE so I can't make any
suggestions about it.

If at all possible, I'd stop using WINGATE, make one of the Win XP
computers the host computer, and use XP's built-in Internet Connection
Sharing (ICS) capability to share a dial-up connection. XP's ICS is
easier to set up an more reliable than any Win 98 SE Internet sharing
program that I've seen.
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