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08-22-2008
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| vista home premium | Vista won't share internet with XP Here's my situation: I have a Vista home premium machine hooked up via USB to a cable modem. I have an XP machine networked to the vista machine via a crossover cable (UTP?) via the ethernet cards. Until recently, I was able to share files between machines and the XP was able to use Vista's internet connection. Then, something happened. I don't know if one of the machines updated something or what, but I lost the connection entirely. After fiddling around with various settings, both machines can now see each other and I can move files, but the XP machine no longer has the internet connection from vista. XP tells me that the host did not assign it an IP address. All the sharing settings on vista are turned on, and everything had worked fine before. I tried all the various repair options, but it just keeps telling me there is limited connectivity. I've reset the modem and adaptor multiple times, rebooted both machines and nothing seems to work. Does anyone have any ideas why the machines can see each other on the network but XP can't use Vista's Internet connection anymore? I'm a newbie when it comes to networking, so please explain any solutions in detail. Thanks! Todd |
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08-22-2008
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| | Re: Vista won't share internet with XP Post the results of ipconfig /all on both computers may help. -- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "tshryock" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message news:ed1144c1968a2a2984e2eeaa99aa361b@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote: > > Here's my situation: I have a Vista home premium machine hooked up via > USB to a cable modem. I have an XP machine networked to the vista > machine via a crossover cable (UTP?) via the ethernet cards. > Until recently, I was able to share files between machines and the XP > was able to use Vista's internet connection. Then, something happened. I > don't know if one of the machines updated something or what, but I lost > the connection entirely. After fiddling around with various settings, > both machines can now see each other and I can move files, but the XP > machine no longer has the internet connection from vista. XP tells me > that the host did not assign it an IP address. All the sharing settings > on vista are turned on, and everything had worked fine before. I tried > all the various repair options, but it just keeps telling me there is > limited connectivity. I've reset the modem and adaptor multiple times, > rebooted both machines and nothing seems to work. > Does anyone have any ideas why the machines can see each other on the > network but XP can't use Vista's Internet connection anymore? > > I'm a newbie when it comes to networking, so please explain any > solutions in detail. Thanks! > Todd > > > -- > tshryock |
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08-22-2008
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| vista home premium | Re: Vista won't share internet with XP How do I get the results for ipconfig/all? Is that something I enter at the command line prompt? As I said, I'm new to networking. Thanks |
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08-22-2008
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| | Re: Vista won't share internet with XP on each computer, go to command prompt. type ipconfig /all and press Enter. -- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "tshryock" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message news:8fa26909b8bb4a97ddde1ede93a0f245@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote: > > How do I get the results for ipconfig/all? Is that something I enter at > the command line prompt? As I said, I'm new to networking. > > Thanks > > > -- > tshryock |
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08-22-2008
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| vista home premium | Re: Vista won't share internet with XP OK, hopefully this is what's needed. I left out the DNS stuff because there weren't any values on the XP machine to compare them to: The mothership (vista) says: IP 76.188.97.241 sub 255 255 240 0 For the LAN (via the command prompt on vista): Autoconfig IP4 169.254.52.67 Sub 255 255 0 0 The client (XP) says: Ethernet: Autoconfig IP4 169.254.97.110 sub 255 255 0 0 Remember, I can file share, but can't get Internet access on XP via the Vista machine. Thanks! |
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08-22-2008
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| | Re: Vista won't share internet with XP The IP 169.254.x.x is the problem. Te following post may help. Vista and XP ICS problem with 169 IP address http://www.chicagotech.net/vista/vistaics.htm How to: Enabling ICS on Vista Do not use ICS on a network with domain controllers, DNS servers, gateways, or DHCP servers. And don't use ICS on systems configured for static IP addresses ... http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums...asc&highlight= -- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "tshryock" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message news:114b374a27f57ad0a8f2727db276af1a@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote: > > OK, hopefully this is what's needed. I left out the DNS stuff because > there weren't any values on the XP machine to compare them to: > > The mothership (vista) says: > IP 76.188.97.241 > sub 255 255 240 0 > For the LAN (via the command prompt on vista): > Autoconfig IP4 169.254.52.67 > Sub 255 255 0 0 > > The client (XP) says: > Ethernet: > Autoconfig IP4 169.254.97.110 > sub 255 255 0 0 > > Remember, I can file share, but can't get Internet access on XP via the > Vista machine. > > Thanks! > > > -- > tshryock |
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