"Tua Loh Au" wrote in message
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I have two old Dell machines, both running XP Pro.

Recently I connect two together in a network.

The setup is like this:

Machine A has two ethernet cards. Machine B has one.

Machine A connects to the Internet (ADSL) with netcard 1.

Machine A's netcard 2 connects to Machine B's only netcard.

I have used XP's default "network connection" to set up a "workgroup",
both with the same name.

The network between Machine A and Machine B does function.

Right now, Machine A can connects to the Internet but not Machine B.

All the browsers in Machine B can't access to the Net. All report the
same problem - can't find the server.

Why?

I have checked the IP addresses, the subnet mask, the default gateways
of both machines - under the TCP/IP

Under the "TCP/IP Properties":

For Machine A, the IP address (under TCP/IP) is 192.168.0.1 and for
Machine B, the IP address is 192.168.0.2

The subnet mask for both machines are 255.255.255.0.

The Default Gateway for Machine B is 192.168.0.1 while the Default
Gateway for Machine A is blank.

I have checked every thing that I can think of, and still Machine B
can't get to the Internet.

It's a very simple network setup, I know, and I have set up much more
complicated networks - and they work - but not this time.

I have checked and re-checked, and re-checked it again.

And still I can't find a clue what is going on.

I have even disable the firewall on Machine B and still Machine B
can't access the Internet.

WHY ????

I have flushed the winsock cache on Machine B. Still no go.

I have flushed all the browser caches of all the browsers (IE, Chrome,
Opera, Firefox) and still none of the browsers on Machine B can access
to the Internet.

What have I missed? I dunno.

What else should I do?

Can someone please give me some advice, please?

Thank you !!

If you are using internet connection sharing (ICS), give it away and buy
yourself a router.
Get one that has 4 ethernet connections and wireless capability for the
best of both worlds.
(You then only need one ethernet card in each PC)

ICS requires the "master PC" to be on, but, with a router all PCs are
capable of connecting to the internet.