XP & 98 almost working

Hi,

I have finally got around to networking 2 of my machines so that the
W98 one can access the adsl connected to the XP machine using ICS. It
all appears to work ok EXCEPT the W98 machine is unable to resolve anything.

E.g. W98 - ping pop.clara.net (my ISP) gives unknown host, but ping
xx.xx.xx.xx (using the correct numbers) works fine, any ideas gratefully
received while I still have some hair left

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Nick Upson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have finally got around to networking 2 of my machines so that the
> W98 one can access the adsl connected to the XP machine using ICS. It
> all appears to work ok EXCEPT the W98 machine is unable to resolve anything.
>
> E.g. W98 - ping pop.clara.net (my ISP) gives unknown host, but ping
> xx.xx.xx.xx (using the correct numbers) works fine, any ideas gratefully
> received while I still have some hair left
>
You *could* put in the name server ip's manually on the Win98 machine,
having got them from "ipconfig /all" on the WinXP machine, but it would
be much better to get the DHCP working properly so that they were set up
automatically, because your ISP may suddenly change them.
There is a registry setting somewhere in XP for correct DHCP serving on
ICS to Win98 but I can't just now find the reference. Anybody else help?

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Mike
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