Internet Connection Sharing NOT Working!

[reversing_drive 0]

Hi Again,

 

After many enjoyous (is that a word ;( ) hours of LAN gaming i finally decided to get down to business 8) . (A continuation (is that a word?) of my post of unable to get a LAN working ). That is to get access to my single CD-burner, Zip-Drive, Printer and Internet Connection working from both Win2K boxes.

 

Well i have succeded with flying colours in all areas except one, and that is Internet Connection sharing.

What is the trick with that anyway?

 

Under properties for my dial-up connection, there is a TAB called sharing. Well i have ticked both boxes there.

Is there anything else i need to do?

Oh another thing, which unfortunatley i think may be the cause, i am using Mcafee's firewall, though only on the dialup connection, not for the LAN. When i try to connect with the other computer, there is no prompt from Mcafee so in a way i don't think it could be that, because it warns when apps/services try to access the internet.

 

Well your tips are greatly appreciated.

 

Please if anyone is using Internet Connection Sharing and Mcafee's firewal (the one with Mcafee VS v6.02), or any other software firewall product please let me know if there were any steps you needed to take to get this to work,

 

Cheers & many thanks

[Xiven 0]

Are the other computers on the LAN set up correctly? IE. in the network settings for the client computers is the Primary DNS and Gateway set to 192.168.0.1 ? (the default IP for any computer running ICS)

 

If you're using DHCP rather than static IPs, then you'll have to check that it is set up correctly.

[Shaft23 0]

it is probably the firewall. i have norton firewall and i couldnt get my computers connected until i added the trusted ip's of the computers to my firewall. i dunno about macfee but my guess is that you would have tel it which ip's can be trusted.