Well, let me tell u about the last 4 hrs. It's disgusting, aminly because it took me so long to get this running. Here we go:>[ decided to finally get a another table for my other pc's; went to Sam's club and got a hard plastic 6 ft table and placed 2 pc's that been sitting around since I moved to denver... had to delete ez-bios first, what a mess!, then format the c: drive and install windows98se...
got that done, installed some games, aoe2 & exp. pk.,, now the networking part >>>>>>>>>>> aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
1. added 2 nic to pc connected to cable modem
2. assigned it an ip address 192.168.0.1 ff.ff.ff.00
3. set up ip on other pc 192.168.0.2 ff.ff.ff.00
4. rebooted, of course, remember?... windozzzzzz
5. all right!!!! now lets ping each other, no sweat! right!
of course NOT!!!
6. can't see shared drives, ooopppss! forgot netbeui, install that, reboot, oooppps network not installed!? what? too soon! wait! there!!! i can see the shared directries, now ping! ugh! nope!
7. i can ping from the pc connected to the cable modem, but cannot from the other pc connected to the 2nd nic
8. what's the problem?! hmmm, tried to install ICS first,reboot then nat32, reboot,then vicomsoft surfbuddy, reboot, to no avail, then rebooted again!
9. nat32 worked the best, at least surf from the original pc w/cabledem, hmmmm not exactly what i planned
10. so maybe nic card bad, but can see drives via netbeui, so no hardware problemo...
11. ok after about 1.5 hrs i started searching the web and found a mention about zonealarms, i turned off ZA and tada! there is ping-age!!! so something in ZA, had to add nic from other pc to trusted zone, plugged in its ip address
12. now pinging, sharing drives but cannot connect to internet
13. since i didn't want ot go and buy anything, being cheap and severely financially stretched, i reinstalled ICS and got it working finally with both nics in the pc connected to the cablemodem, uhhhhmmmm, supposed to work like that, but had problems, again into ZA for some tweakage, lowered internet security zone from high to medium and trusted zone to medium ... added private nic 192.168.0.1 to trusted zone
14. installed ics client file again.... checked nic address 192.168.0.2 ff.ff.ff.00 so same subnet, same workgroup, still could not get out to internet from 2nd pc...:>{
15. finally checked the dns address of nic in 2nd pc and made it 192.168.0.1, same as 2nd nic in pc connected to cablemodem... so nic in 2nd pc used 2nd nic in 1st pc to route traffic to internet... finally worked!!!!!!!!!!
ghost time.... image these disks ... c ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!