Vince Maskeeper
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I have tried installing windows XP because of some probelms I was having on my HTPC with win2000.
However I could not get XP to see my household network or connect to the internet via Internet Connection Sharing that I run on my system (it seemed to ignore the other win98 machines on the network completely). All the other PCs on the network are win 98 second edition-- including the machine serving as the router for ICS.
Win2000 is able to connect to the internet perfectly via Internet connection sharing without issue- so I was forced to uninstall XP and reinstall 2000 in order to get up to date drivers and information from the net. I would rather run XP- but as long as it refuses to work with my network- it will sit on my coffee table, collecting dust.
Does anyone know how to get XP to see an existing network running internet connection sharing? If I open IE, it sits detecting proxy settings for a while, and then gives up.
I went through windows help and found that it said to uncheck both Auto Detect AND Use Script in internet options in IE (!!)-- but even unchecking both yielded no result (nor did a dozen restarts). All other help info for Internet Connection Sharing revolves around setting up the XP machine as the server- which I don't want to do!
Seems odd they have almost no info on helping you incorporate an XP machine into an existing network when 2000 does it so well. I tried every wizard I could find in Network settings- still nothing.
Win 2000 is able to connect using the same exact hardware without issue. Also, I can pass files across the network with 2000 and XP refuses to see any oter machine on the network. I have made sure the workgroup names match- still XP ignores the network.
Is there any trick to making this work? I don't care so much about file/print sharing- but if it can't see the internet via ICS, then it is worthless to me.
-Vince
However I could not get XP to see my household network or connect to the internet via Internet Connection Sharing that I run on my system (it seemed to ignore the other win98 machines on the network completely). All the other PCs on the network are win 98 second edition-- including the machine serving as the router for ICS.
Win2000 is able to connect to the internet perfectly via Internet connection sharing without issue- so I was forced to uninstall XP and reinstall 2000 in order to get up to date drivers and information from the net. I would rather run XP- but as long as it refuses to work with my network- it will sit on my coffee table, collecting dust.
Does anyone know how to get XP to see an existing network running internet connection sharing? If I open IE, it sits detecting proxy settings for a while, and then gives up.
I went through windows help and found that it said to uncheck both Auto Detect AND Use Script in internet options in IE (!!)-- but even unchecking both yielded no result (nor did a dozen restarts). All other help info for Internet Connection Sharing revolves around setting up the XP machine as the server- which I don't want to do!
Seems odd they have almost no info on helping you incorporate an XP machine into an existing network when 2000 does it so well. I tried every wizard I could find in Network settings- still nothing.
Win 2000 is able to connect using the same exact hardware without issue. Also, I can pass files across the network with 2000 and XP refuses to see any oter machine on the network. I have made sure the workgroup names match- still XP ignores the network.
Is there any trick to making this work? I don't care so much about file/print sharing- but if it can't see the internet via ICS, then it is worthless to me.
-Vince