Windows Internet connection sharing

[Mr_love_monkey]

what's it set to on the other machine?

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

[Mr_love_monkey]

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

Windows networking wizard, on both computers.

[Mr_love_monkey]

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

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.

[Mr_love_monkey]

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

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

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

[Mr_love_monkey]

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