Trying to share wired *** bb connection.

[doughboy]

Tried searching, but not found anything that works yet

Got a cable modem going into asus a7n8x, nvidia mcp nforce network socket. All works fine..

Plug into the other network socket(3com integrated fast ethernet) the cat 5 which goes to my T23 thinkpad.

Tried setting the 3com to 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0/gateway from nvidia settings.

Lappy to 192.168.0.3/255.255.255.0/gateway addy from nvidia settings.

This usually results in pings from pc to laptop, but prevents internet on pc.

In either case, I can't get connected to the net on the laptop.

Can anyone help??

Cheers

[Breamy]

Tried searching, but not found anything that works yet

Got a cable modem going into asus a7n8x, nvidia mcp nforce network socket. All works fine..

Plug into the other network socket(3com integrated fast ethernet) the cat 5 which goes to my T23 thinkpad.

Tried setting the 3com to 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0/gateway from nvidia settings.

Lappy to 192.168.0.3/255.255.255.0/gateway addy from nvidia settings.

This usually results in pings from pc to laptop, but prevents internet on pc.

In either case, I can't get connected to the net on the laptop.

Can anyone help??

Cheers

right click on one of network connection on pc and click bridge connections

techie

[doughboy]

Tried that.

Says I muat select at least 2 lans connections that aren't being used by ics.

There's just the 2 connections showing on the pc, the one which goes to the modem(shared), and the 3com.

Cheers

[Breamy]

Tried that.

Says I muat select at least 2 lans connections that aren't being used by ics.

There's just the 2 connections showing on the pc, the one which goes to the modem(shared), and the 3com.

Cheers

turn sharing off on the connection that goes to the modem then bridge them

techie

[Goldberg]

Seems a little complicated all of this.

I got around this in the past by plugging the modem into a Cable Router/Hub then all machines connected by Ethernet worked fine.

Another way I got around it before the router was to have two network cards in the Main PC, one has the modem the other the 2nd PC. I then started a shared connection on both machines with the settings on the main PC set to allow other computers to share the main machines connection.

[daz73]

make sure u aint got some firewall blocking it too..

I came across this a while ago and guess who was blocking the connection.. FOOKIN NORTONS!!

[doughboy]

turn sharing off on the connection that goes to the modem then bridge them

techie

cheers techie, but the advanced tab has only the windows firewall option

afaik, that's where ics should be

[Breamy]

cheers techie, but the advanced tab has only the windows firewall option

afaik, that's where ics should be

ok then set your laptop to detect the settings automatically on its network connection

should sort it

techie

[doughboy]

Just tried that, techie.

Laptop and pc can ping each other ok(laptop assigns itself same ip as before anyway).

but as in the first attempt neither machine can now see the internet. had to put the lappy in standby to get back here.

both firewalls were down btw.

cheers

[Breamy]

Just tried that, techie.

Laptop and pc can ping each other ok(laptop assigns itself same ip as before anyway).

but as in the first attempt neither machine can now see the internet. had to put the lappy in standby to get back here.

both firewalls were down btw.

cheers

did you originally use ics to try and share the internet across connections

[doughboy]

no

[Breamy]

does the advanced tab show up on any connection on the pc??

[doughboy]

does the advanced tab show up on any connection on the pc??

The advanced tab appears on both connections, but in both cases only shows windows firewall..

cheers

[Breamy]

what os is the pc running

[doughboy]

both machines on xp pro.

[Breamy]

the only way round it is using a piece of software to share the connection

[doughboy]

Thanks for your time and effort mate.

K++

[hxbro]

I don't see why people find ics complicated

1. Plug cable modem into pc ethernet port 1, enable dhcp on this port
2. Enable ics on ethernet port 1 (bring up network connections, right click on the ethernet port 1 adaptor->properties, click the advanced tab and tick allow other computers to use this internet connection and click ok)
3. Enable dhcp on the other pc
4. Plug cross over cable from ethernet port 2 on first pc to the ethernet port on other pc

voila it should just all work!

[Breamy]

I don't see why people find ics complicated

1. Plug cable modem into pc ethernet port 1, enable dhcp on this port
2. Enable ics on ethernet port 1 (bring up network connections, right click on the ethernet port 1 adaptor->properties, click the advanced tab and tick allow other computers to use this internet connection and click ok)
3. Enable dhcp on the other pc
4. Plug cross over cable from ethernet port 2 on first pc to the ethernet port on other pc

voila it should just all work!

wasnt like that mate pc wouldnt let him enable ics the way youve just said