Internet Connection Sharing

If turn off the firewall, can you ping each other?

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
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"Bhay99" <Bhay99@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:5A2068AA-AB2F-4528-8EEB-DE48D4F47549@microsoft.com...
Hi,

I'm trying to get the internet on a laptop without wireless and use Internet
connection sharing from a laptop with wireless. I enabled sharing on my
wireless laptop and hooked up the crossover cable to each. My non-wireless
says it's connected via Local Area Connection and my wireless says its
connected and sharing. The non-wireless however, is not letting me connect
to anything, while the wireless is still connected to the internet. How can
I fix this? thanks.

I recently built a new home PC since our old one died after 6 years of
service. My situation is somewhat unique. I am running Vista Business on the
new PC, but I have satellite internet that there are no Vista drivers for,
so I am running a XP Pro machine, sort of as a router. I have ICS enabled on
the XP machine, but can not get the Vista box to see the internet. I can
access files back & forth between both machines, but for whatever reason the
Vista box will not connect, & the pretty little diagram even shows no net
connection. Is this a common problem? In the past ICS was very easy to get
to work on most all platforms including Ubuntu Linux. Am I missing some
setting somewhere? It almost has to be something simple that I am
overlooking. Please help me if you can, my wife is going nuts without her
email!!!

Thanks
Brian

hi, i am trying to share my internet with another computer.

specs:
broadband is wired to a vista laptop and then connected wirelessly to an xp
desktop computer.

the internet just doesnt seem to be working in the xp desktop but says the
connection to wi-fi is excellent, could anyone help please? i dont really
understand vista, its new to me but if i was to guess i think i may just need
to click something to share it? im not sure but any other ideas will be
accepted...thank you

Posting the results of ipconfig /all on both computers may help.

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"PhillZ600" <PhillZ600@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:103041C2-24AA-4386-9C65-56D3FC7BF97A@microsoft.com...

> hi, i am trying to share my internet with another computer.
>
> specs:
> broadband is wired to a vista laptop and then connected wirelessly to an
> xp
> desktop computer.
>
> the internet just doesnt seem to be working in the xp desktop but says the
> connection to wi-fi is excellent, could anyone help please? i dont really
> understand vista, its new to me but if i was to guess i think i may just
> need
> to click something to share it? im not sure but any other ideas will be
> accepted...thank you

http://www.lytebyte.com/2007/02/21/h...r-using-vista/

Have read of the above; might give you some pointers.

The best way is to buy a wireless router, hook up the desktop to it wired,
set up a wireless network, complete with security; and access wireless from
laptop.

"PhillZ600" wrote:

> hi, i am trying to share my internet with another computer.
>
> specs:
> broadband is wired to a vista laptop and then connected wirelessly to an xp
> desktop computer.
>
> the internet just doesnt seem to be working in the xp desktop but says the
> connection to wi-fi is excellent, could anyone help please? i dont really
> understand vista, its new to me but if i was to guess i think i may just need
> to click something to share it? im not sure but any other ideas will be
> accepted...thank you