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Hi All,

I've just got back from PC world with my nice, new, shiny ethernet hub and cables and network cards and everything that I think I need to set up a home network. I've plugged it all in and installed everything I think I need to install, all according to the instructions. I have some problems though...

I'm networking two machines, one running XP Pro with SP2 and the other running standard Win98. I want to be able to share my ADSL internet connection on the XP machine with the 98 machine, so that the 98 machine can run behind the security precautions I've taken with the XP one (taking advantage of its firewall, antivirus etc.) I want to do this cause the processor on the 98 machine is killed by any virus protection I've put on it. First of all is it possible to do this without having to buy a router or install XP on the 98 machine?

Secondly, the two computers are obviously communicating with each other - multiplayer Civ3 confirmed that one! But, I can't seem to even see, let alone share/write to any drives on one machine from the other :( I guess I need to figure that one out before trying to share the internet connection!! Also, while I'm merrily typing away, is it possible, and I'm assuming once I've got the drives "visible" that it is, that I can install iTunes on the Win98 machine and play music files on it from the drives on the XP one?

Thanks for any help,

Edno

It looks like you're missing the installation of something.
On your win98 machine, when you select properties on your network connection and it displays the list of components installed, do you have all of the following: TCP/IP (obviously yes as you've already configured it), NetBEUI, Client for Microsoft Networks, and File and printer sharing for Microsoft Networks?
Similarly on your XP machine, check the list of installed components, you should just need Client for Microsoft Networks and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) for XP though.

4 things :

1) when I try pinging the other, from either machine, all 4 requests to transfer data time out, yet there are no visible conflicts with the hardware and they all appear on www.microsoft.com/hcl
2) BT are useless.
3) Apparently I can't share an internet connection with my BT Voyager ADSL modem 105 because it doesn't have multiple ethernet ports. Is this true, or should it not make a difference as long as the ICS host has any sort of internet connection, the client should be able to dial out through it, as long as the host PC is turned on?
4) I will be ending my poorly supported, limited and slow BT Broadband connection ASAP.

Todays results show I'm better off posting my problems here..... :)

OK, on the computer connected to BT Broadband, right click on the icon of two computers in the system tray. Select Status.

From memory, I believe that the DNS Servers are written there somewhere.

Nimco wrote:
>
> The two DNS servers for the bottom section should be in an email from
> your broadband provider. If not, let me know and I'll tell you how to
> find them out.

No email from BT unfortunately - don't think they've ever had my email address (fortunately!!) Please don't say I have to call them up - it's at least a three hour wait and I can usually only speak to someone by threatening to cancel my subscription!!!

Subnets and IPs changed - thanks for your help!!

edno wrote:
> The subnets are slightly different -
>
> this machine (ICS Host) : 255.255.255.0, the other : 255.255.0.0
>
> the IPs are completely differnet -
>
> this machine (ICS Host) : 192.168.0.1, the other : 169.254.154.75
>
> Is this where the problem lies?

Yup, you need to change the 2nd machine to have IP 192.168.0.2 and subnet mask 255.255.255.0

To do this, do the following:
- Go to: My Network Places
- Choose on the left hand menu: Network Connections
- Right click on your Network Adapter
- Click Properties
- Select: Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
- Click Properties

If not already selected, select the two radio buttons entitled "Use the following IP address:" and "Use the following DNS server addresses"

Fill in the information as follows:

IP Address: 192.168.0.2
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gatway: 192.168.0.1

The two DNS servers for the bottom section should be in an email from your broadband provider. If not, let me know and I'll tell you how to find them out.

Right, it's not MySQL - it's something to do with the path to ipconfig.exe not being recognised. I've entered the full system path in the DOS prompt and have got the following :

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator> C:\windows\system32\ipconfig.exe

Windows IP Configuration


Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

PPP adapter BT Broadband:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 81.156.208.120
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 81.156.208.120

The subnets are slightly different -

this machine (ICS Host) : 255.255.255.0, the other : 255.255.0.0

the IPs are completely differnet -

this machine (ICS Host) : 192.168.0.1, the other : 169.254.154.75

Is this where the problem lies?

could this have something to do with me installing MySQL on there the other day? It's the only thing I've personally installed on the machine in months - I'm sure I've tried to run ipconfig before and its been fine....

I've just check the system32 folder on the machine and ipconfig.exe is in there..... this gets weirder!

Hmmm, cheers for that Nimco - the results......

On the first machine (which I want to use as the ICS host) :

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ipconfig

"ipconfig" is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

On the second machine (the one updated from 98 to XP) :

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ipconfig

Ethernet adapter Local area connection:

Connection specific DNS suffix :
Autoconfiguration IP address : 169.254.154.75
Subnet mask : 255.255.0.0
Deafult Gateway :

So it's something with the first machine but I'm worried now if I've lost ipconfig!!

Go to Start > Run > Type: cmd > OK

Then type: ipconfig
Press enter.

Copy what it says in here. Do that on both machines.

Quick note: to copy and paste, use the icon in the top left of the window and choose Edit > Select All, then Edit > Copy.