VaKo Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 Having watched this thread I would recommend that you remove ICS and replace it with a cable router. While I've championed ICS as an emergancy measure I would *never* recommend it for a permenant solution. Its a cheap hack at best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRGRIM Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 After reading this thread and going away for a few days here are my thoughts, 1. Time to invest in a NAS or a Samba server. 2. I tried XP Home and Pro networking once, and then thought better of it. 3. Invest in a home domain :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jht129 Posted July 25, 2008 Author Share Posted July 25, 2008 Ok thanks guys... I have a router, so based off your solutions I guess its time to configure it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jht129 Posted July 26, 2008 Author Share Posted July 26, 2008 Hello everyone once again. Some good news this time. I disabled ICS on the host computer then re-enabled it. I went to the laptop that needs internet and opened up the brower and it worked. No clue how it happened, but it worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Thats one of ICS's features... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 The term "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" from "The IT Crowd" comes to mind. Yeah, sometimes after starting all the right services and settings, you either do a reboot or restart the ICS service on all machines to reload the settings. I usually have "server" and "computer browser" disabled by default as well as ICS and workstation. Once I start all four(Set to automaticly start on boot) I then reboot and have no issues seeing other machines on the lan. Sounds like ICS was hosed on the one machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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