Small home network quetion - Sharing the internet

[KaalVoet]

Hi

Me again, don`t know why I don`t come here first off cause everytime I google a problem this forum pops up on the first try

I have a small network at home, very small, one pc one laptop. I have setup the network, with the idiots guide as was advised on the other thread I found here via google.

Works fine, pc`s can see each other and files can be shared. But I cannot get the internet to work on the laptop. I have the iburst modem connected directly to my pc, via usb and the pc`s connected togehter with my ethernet switch.

What am i MISSING !!!!!!! AAAAarrrrghhhhhh !

 

[stricken]

you need to setup masquerading / NAT on the PC, so it knows what to do with packets coming from the laptop, and going to the laptop. Think of it as changing the packet from the laptop to look like it comes from the PC before it goes out through your modem to the interwebs. and when the interwebs responds with, say, webpage data (in packets), the PC changes them back so the laptop thinks it came from the interwebs.

so you basically wanna run a router on your PC. google --> windows 7 router

 

[KaalVoet]

I have xp, will google quick.

Thanks,

 

[KaalVoet]

Hi

found this, will it work, don`t want to try if it`s the wrong thing :-D

http://www.home-network-help.com/ip-forwarding.html

 

[Ivork]

Hi

found this, will it work, don`t want to try if it`s the wrong thing :-D

http://www.home-network-help.com/ip-forwarding.html

Yip that looks right. Of course you can also simply use the built in internet connection sharing if you don't mind useing the pre-defined 192.168.0.X ip range.

 

[stricken]

built-in internet connection sharing. lol. windows never fails to make me ...... .

 

[KaalVoet]

I did use the built in internet sharing, with the ip range and all the katoet ! It`s not woooorkin. will try that link though, and report tomorrow, thanks,

 

[Ivork]

Well then it would have made your pc 192.168.0.1 (if i remember correctly)
So on the your notebook you pointed your DNS & gateway to that address right.
Dissabled all your AV & firewalls on the pc esp Zone Alarm and ip cop etc etc etc right.

Start with a tracert to the internet address assigned to the iburst as see how far it gets.

Post the routing tables of both machines & lets see whats going on then. ("print route" at the command prompt)

 

[KaalVoet]

Eeeer routing tables ? Tracert ? Speaking to a peanut here....I do what the tutorials tells me to do :-D Further that that, I`m blind as a bat....

My pc`s ip is as above, I ran the same wizard on the laptop and it did not change the ip so I changed it to 192.168.0.2, it`s in the same range so I should have worked, did disable all anti virus things and windows irritaters like firewall things and so on.

 

[Ivork]

No don't worry about the silly wizard on the second pc - your notebook.
Just manually put it in. 192.168.0.2 is fine as its ip.
Manualy add 192.168.0.1 as your default gateway and dns.

First ping 192.168.0.1 and make sure you get reply.
Then ping the external ip assigned to your iburst connect. - no reply there = problem
Go to the command prompt (cmd) on each pc and type "route print" hit enter and post results.

 

[KaalVoet]

furiously making notes......

My mom just ran off with the notebook so will follow your steps tomorrow morning and post.

Thanks a mill. xxx

 

[Moshidi]

the built in interface worked for my setup(xp laptop with iburst modem and win7 laptop). basically added them to the same workgroup and shared the settings from a usb stick. rebooted both and it worked
....ok....after a few tries........