Re: Windows Internet connection sharing
 

what's it set to on the other machine?

Re: Windows Internet connection sharing
 

Connection-specific DNS suffix : empty
IP Address : 192.168.0.1
Subnet mask : 255.255.255.0
Default gateway : empty

You mean that? That's for the same network connection on THIS machine to the other machine

Re: Windows Internet connection sharing
 

have you set the ip address manually or let windows do it?

Re: Windows Internet connection sharing
 

Windows networking wizard, on both computers.

Re: Windows Internet connection sharing
 

Silly question, but the internet connection is actually shared isn't it?

Re: Windows Internet connection sharing
 

Yes, it has the hand underneith it AND the other machine shows the "Internet Gateway" so I can control the internet from the other machine, but just not use it.

Re: Windows Internet connection sharing
 

OK, when you go to IE on the non gateway machine, what are you connection options set to (tools->internet options->connections)

Re: Windows Internet connection sharing
 

Do you mean LAN settings? If so it's got automatically detect settings ticked.

Re: Windows Internet connection sharing
 

OK, I switched the internet around so the other machine was the host, and the other PC was the network computer and it worked....with the same settings as it was the other way around. Very very strange, at least there now networked, and BOINC can crunch away with an AMD AthlonXP 1900+ and an AMD Duron 1.8GHZ :D

Re: Windows Internet connection sharing
 

Glad you worked it out - sorry I couldn't come up with a solution :)