Windows Internet connection sharing
 

Iv'e got another problem with Windows now, I decided to network my PC's together so I could run 2 BOINC's, I got both computers to read each other's hard drives, the network machine picks up the internet gateway but it doesn't seem to be able to USE the internet. I have ran network setup on both machines, still no luck.

Any ideas?

EDIT: There both using Windows XP, one is Home and the other Pro.

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Does the networked machine have a firewall?

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No, firewall is off. But the computer connected to the internet has a firewall on to the other computer, would that effect it?

EDIT: Tried it off any way, no effect. Just keeps saying "The page cannot be displayed"

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can you ping the outside world, or is just browsing that doesn't work?

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Are you trying to use an 'ad hoc' network setup?
ie.....the 2nd 'puter is connected to the web via the first one.....if so, forget it and get a router.....

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1. I don't have the money for one
2. I have been able to do this with windows ME before

I don't think it can "ping" because BOINC reports it can't find the project I told it to connect to (SETI@Home). So I think it hasn't got ANY internet connection.

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could you try pinging www.bbc.co.uk - just to see what it says - after all it could be that the seti client uses port 80 to communicate on?

also can you ping the other machine?

also can you do an ipconfig on both machines and post the results here (without any sensitive information, of course :) )

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Pinged the other computer without a problem, but when trying to ping www.bbc.co.uk it said "Ping request could not find host www.bbc.co.uk. Please check the name and try again."

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If you turn the firewall off and try it what happens?

You can get a router for under £20 these days. Might be worth saving for.

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not sure if you saw this in the last post :


also can you do an ipconfig on both machines and post the results here (without any sensitive information, of course :) )

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Erm, how do I do an ipconfig? :(

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get a dos window and then just type ipconfig <return> :)

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Connection-specific DNS Suffix : mshome.net
IP Address : 192.***.*.**
Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway : 192.***.*.*

Is that what you mean?

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yeah, but would be useful to see the ipaddress for the internal network on both machines, i.e. those that start with 192... you don't need to worry it's nothing anyone can use to get access to your machines

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Sorry:

IP Address : 192.168.0.50
Default Gateway : 192.168.0.1

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what's it set to on the other machine?

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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

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

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Windows networking wizard, on both computers.

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

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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.

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

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

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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

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